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|
Career |
 |
| Name: |
U-1226 |
| Ordered: |
25 August 1941 |
| Builder: |
Deutsche Werft
AG, Hamburg |
| Yard number: |
389 |
| Laid down: |
11 January 1943 |
| Launched: |
25 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: |
23 November 1943 |
| Fate: |
Lost on, or shortly after, 23 October 1944 |
|
General characteristics |
| Type: |
Type IXC/40 submarine |
| Crew: |
56 |
|
|
Service record |
| Part of: |
33rd U-boat flotilla |
| Commanders: |
August-Wilhelm Claussen |
| Operations: |
1 war patrol |
| Victories: |
None |
German submarine U-1226) was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.
The U-boat, built for
service in the Battle of the Atlantic, was completed in Hamburg in November 1943, and
placed under the command of Kptlt. August-Wilhem Claussen, whose
brother Emil had been killed onboard U-469 the previous
year. She underwent working up cruises in the Baltic Sea before embarking on her only
operational patrol from Horten
in Norway during September 1944.
This patrol was uneventful for the first three weeks during the
Atlantic crossing as she deliberately avoided the highly-effective
allied countermeasures. The last contact with the boat was on 23
October 1944 reporting trouble with its Schnorchel
underwater-breathing apparatus after which nothing more was heard
from her. It is possible she was sunk in an unrecorded encounter
with an Allied ship or aircraft, or more likely she suffered some
unknown catastrophic accident which claimed the boat and all its
crew[1].
Whatever the cause, she was given up for lost in mid-November.
Her remains were claimed to have been found east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in
1993 however, this identification is unlikely. The vessels last
radio contact instructed the submarine to maintain it's faulty
Schnorkel in the upright position and return to base, giving
U-1226's position as 605 km (376 mi) south of Iceland at 56°00′N 20°00′W / 56°N
20°W / 56;
-20.[2]
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