Unterseeboot 331

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Unterseeboot 331 was a Type VII-C U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II. She was commissioned on 31 March 1941.

[edit] Career

In 10 patrols, U-331 sank a warship, an auxiliary warship, and also damaged a warship. She is known for sinking HMS Barham, a British Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, on November 25th, 1941.

On her 3rd patrol, on 17 November, 1941 U-331 dropped off 8 commandos on the Egyptian coast east of Ras Gibeisa, to blow up a railway near the coast, but they failed.

[edit] Fate

She was sunk on November 17, 1942 in the Mediterranean north of Algiers at 37.05N-02.27E. After she had been badly damaged by a Hudson aircraft she signaled surrender to a seaplane but was attacked by a torpedo-equipped aircraft Albacore from the British aircraft carrier HMS Formidable. 32 men died but 17 survived.