U-Boat Operations

U-1014	Type VIIC/41
Feldpost Number	M 01 524
Construction Yard	Blohm und Voß, Hamburg
Yard Number	214
Ordered	23rd Mar 1942
Keel laid	25th Mar 1943
Launched	30th Jan 1944
Commissioned	14th Mar 1944
Baubelehrung	8.KLA, Hamburg
Training, Flotillas and Duties
03.44 - 12.44	31.U-Flottille, Hamburg Ausbildungsboot (under training)
01.45 - 02.45	11.U-Flottille, Bergen Frontboot (operational)
Commanders
03.44 - 02.45	OL Wolfgang Glaser

Notes for U-1014

U 1014 prior to her war patrols was involved in an accident with U 1015 in the Gulf of Danzig, when she rammed the hapless boat, resulting in the loss of U 1015 and 36 men.

On 18th Jan 1945, U 1014 left for patrol off the British coast. However she was soon detected on the evening of the 3rd of February North of Portrush, lying on the bottom, by ASDIC of HMS Loch Scavaig (23rd Escort Group frigate), then undergoing working up exercises, which were soon to become very real.Loch Scavaig attacked with squid, but had no result, contact was eventually lost. The next morning 4th February she investigated a smoke candle dropped by a Swordfish aricraft. U 1014 now had no chance of escape.

The frigate HMS Nysaland joined in, dropping depth charges, also being joined by frigate HMS Papua, who followed an oil track, culminating in a successful hedgehog attack. Numerous items coming to the surface clearly indicated the complete destruction of U 1014 - splintered wood panelling, two pairs of German underpants marked 'MUHS', a sailor's cap with German insignia, a fur lined leather jerkin, fragments of overalls, a dishcloth marked 'Kriegsmarine', pages of a German navigator's notebook, and a seaboot.

None of the crew of U 1014 survived, 48 men lost.

Many thanks to Ron Young and P. Armstrong for their help with extensive corrections to this page and the details of the loss of U 1014, derived from AUD reports at TNA (PRO).

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We have a position of 55°17N 06°44W for where this boat went down, mapped below. The cross represents where U 1014 went down.

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