Unterseeboot 889

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Surrender of U-889 near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, May 13, 1945.

Unterseeboot 889 (U-889) was a 740 ton Type IXC/40 U-boat of the Kriegsmarine who served in the Royal Canadian Navy for several years after World War II.

U-889 was laid down on the 13th of September, 1943 at AG Weser shipyard in Bremen and was commissioned on August 4, 1944

After the official end of the German war on May 8 1945 The German High command ordered all U-boats to surrender. On the Afternoon of May 10 U-889 was spotted south of Newfoundland by a RCAF airplane, U-889 was steaming at 10 knots and flying a black flag of surrender. The RCAF plane radioed to nearby Western Escort Force W-6 who intercepted the submarine an hour later. U-889 was ordered to head to Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. 24 hours later U-889 was turned over to the frigates HMCS Buckingham and HMCS Inch Arran who escorted U-889 in to Shelburne Harbour where it was boarded and her Commanding Officer made a formal surrender.

U-889 was one of 10 U-boats allocated to the United States as part of the Tripartite Naval Commission sitting in Berlin in November 1945.

U-889 was sailed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on January 11, 1946 and experiments were conducted on the special hydrophone system with which U-889 was equipped. U-889 was scuttled at the end of 1947.