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U-107
The
U-boat with the longest operational service in World War II, spending 750 days
at sea during 13 patrols from January 1941 to August 1944. She sank 38 ships
totaling 217,751 tons, including 14 vessels on one patrol, the most by any
World War II U-boat during a single war cruise.
Type: IX B
Built: AG Weser, Bremen
Keel laid: 6 December 1939
Launched: 2 July 1940
Commissioned: 8 October 1940
Commanders:
KK Günther Hessler, October 1940-November 1941
KL Harald Gelhaus, December 1941-May 1943
KL Volker Simmermacher, June 1943-August 1944
Lt.z.S.d.R. Karl-Heinz Fritz, August 1944
Fate: Sunk by British air attack 18 August 1944 while in passage from Lorient
to La Pallice with a load of snorkels for the U-boats based there. All
59 crewmen lost.
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