Unterseeboot 443

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Unterseeboot 443 or U-443 was a German World War II Type VIIC submarine commissioned on 18 April 1942. U-443 served with 8. Unterseebootflottille (U-Boat Flotilla) for training, with 9. Unterseebootflottille from 1 October 1942 to 31 December 1942, and with 29. Unterseebootflottille from 1 January 1943 to 23 February 1943. U-443 completed three patrols sinking three ships totalling 19,435 Gross Registered Tonnage, and one warship (the escort destroyer HMS Blean).

U-443 was sunk with all hands on deck on 23 February 1943 in the Mediterranean near Algiers by depth charges from the escort destroyers HMS Bicester, HMS Lamerton, and HMS Wheatland.

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• Bishop, C. Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45. Amber Books, 2006.