Unterseeboot 1226
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| U-1226 | |||
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| Type | IXC/40
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| Launch Date | September 18, 1943 | ||
| Commission Date | December 8, 1943 | ||
| Construction yard | Deutschewerft, Hamburg | ||
| Patrols | |||
| Start Date | End Date | Assigned Unit | |
| September 30, 1944 | October, 1944 | 2nd Flotilla | |
| Commanders | |||
| November, 1943 | October, 1944 | Kptlt. August-Wilhelm Claussen | |
| Successes | |||
| Type of Ship Sunk | Number of Ships Sunk | Gross Registered Tonnage | |
| Commercial Vessels | None | 0 | |
| Military Vessels | None | 0 | |
Unterseeboot 1226 (usually abbreviated to U-1226) was a very short-lived German U-boat, built during World War II for service in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. The submarine was completed in Hamburg in November 1943, and placed under the command of Kptlt. August-Wilhem Claussen, whose brother Emil had been killed onboard U-469 the previous year. She underwent working up cruises in the Baltic Sea before embarking on her only operational patrol from Horten in Norway during September 1944.
This patrol was uneventful for the first three weeks during the Atlantic crossing as she deliberately avoided the highly-effective allied countermeasures. U-1226 arrived on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States sometime around the 28 October, but following this nothing more was heard from her. It is possible she was sunk in an unrecorded encounter with an allied ship or aircraft, or more likely she suffered some unknown catastrophic accident which claimed the boat and all its crew[1]. Whatever the cause, she was given up for lost in mid-November and her remains have never been discovered, lost somewhere deep in the Atlantic Ocean.
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[edit] References
- Sharpe, Peter, U-Boat Fact File, Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
- U-boat.net webpage for U-1226
