German submarine U-995 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was laid down on 25 November 1942 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany, and commissioned on 16 September 1943 with Oberleutnant zur See Walter Köhntopp in command.
At the end of the war on 8 May 1945 she was stricken at Trondheim, Norway. She was surrendered to the British and then transferred to Norwegian ownership in October 1948. In December 1952 U995 became the Norwegian submarine S309 Kaura and in 1965 she was stricken by the Royal Norwegian Navy. She then was sold for the symbolic price of one Deutsche Mark to Germany where she became a museum ship at Laboe Naval Memorial in October 1971.
List of ships sunk by U-995:
Three ships sunk for 1,560 GRT
One auxiliary warship sunk for 633 GRT
One warship sunk for 105 GRT
One ship a total loss for 7,176 GRT
She is the only remaining type VIIC/41 (of the 91 commissioned) that is not yet scrapped or was lost in the WWII! |
