Unterseeboot 353

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U-353 under construction at the Flensburger Schiffbau shipyard in Flensburg, Germany circa 1940-41
Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	U-353
Ordered:	9 October 1939
Builder:	Flensburger Schiffbau, Flensburg, Germany
Yard number:	472
Laid down:	30 March 1940
Launched:	11 November 1941
Commissioned:	31 March 1942
Fate:	Sunk, 16 October 1942 in the North Atlantic, at 53°54′N, 29°30′W. 39 survivors. 6 dead.
General characteristics
Type:	VIIC
Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine 5. Unterseebootsflottille (Training/ Kiel) 31 March 1942 - 30 September 1942, 1. Unterseebootsflottille (Front Boat/ Brest) 1 October 1942 - 16 October 1942
Identification codes	M 44 455
Commanders	Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Römer 31 March 1942 - 16 October 1942
Operations	1 patrol
Victories	0 ships sunk

Unterseeboot 353 or U-353 was a German World War II Type VIIC submarine commissioned on 31 March 1942. U-353 served with 5. Unterseebootflottille (U-Boat Flotilla) for training and later with 1. Unterseebootflottille from 1 October 1942 to 16 October 1942. U-353 completed one patrol, but did not sink any ships.

U-353 was sunk on 16 October 1942 in the North Atlantic by depth charges from the destroyer HMS Fame. Six of U-353’s crew were killed and 39 survived the attack.

[edit] References

• Bishop, C. Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45. Amber Books, 2006.

[edit] External links

• http://www.uboat.net/boats/u353.htm
• http://ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=353
• U-boat Archive - U-353 - Interrogation Report

[edit] See also

• List of U-boats
  
• Convoy SC-104