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KMS U995
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Photographer:Alexey Lisitsyn [ View profile ]
Captured:May 8, 2017
Title:Kms U995
Photo Category:Museum Ships
Added:Dec 22, 2017
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Image Resolution:1,200 x 800
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U-995
Type
VIIC/41
Ordered 14 Oct 1941
Laid down 25 Nov 1942 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 195)
Launched 22 Jul 1943
Commissioned 16 Sep 1943 Oblt. Walter Köhntopp
Commanders
16 Sep 1943 - 9 Oct 1944 Kptlt. Walter Köhntopp
10 Oct 1944 - 9 May 1945 Oblt. Hans-Georg Hess (Knights Cross)
Career
9 patrols
16 Sep 1943 - 31 May 1944 5. Flottille (training)
1 Jun 1944 - 28 Feb 1945 13. Flottille (active service)
1 Mar 1945 - 8 May 1945 14. Flottille (active service)
Successes 3 ships sunk, total tonnage 1,560 GRT
1 auxiliary warship sunk, total tonnage 633 GRT
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 105 tons
1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,176 GRT
Fate
Surrendered on 9 May 1945 at Trondheim, Norway (Waller & Niestlé, 2010).
Post war information (see more post-war boats):
Unseaworthy. Not transferred to UK. Taken over by Norway. Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec, 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany where she became a museum ship in Oct 1971.
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