U-Boat Operations

U-356	Type VIIC
Feldpost Number	M 47 956
Construction Yard	Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft, Flensburg
Yard Number	475
Ordered	26th Oct 1939
Keel laid	11th May 1940
Launched	17th Sep 1941
Commissioned	20th Dec 1941
Baubelehrung	Baubelehrung U-Boote Ostsee, Kiel / Kriegsschiffbaulehrabteilung für Unterseeboote Ostsee, Kiel / 1.KLA, Kiel
Training, Flotillas and Duties
12.41 - 12.42	6.U-Flottille, Danzig & St.Nazaire Ausbildungsboot (under training) Frontboot (operational)
Commanders
12.41 - 12.42	OL Georg Wallas see also: U-60
12.42 - 12.42	OL Günther Ruppelt see also: U-579

Operations information for U-356
03.09.1942 - 04.11.1942 First Sailing - active patrol U-356 left Kiel under the command of Georg Wallas on 3rd Sep 1942 and arrived at St. Nazaire on 4th Nov 1942 after nearly nine weeks.
05.12.1942 - 27.12.1942 Second Sailing - active patrol On the 5th Dec 1942, U-356 left St. Nazaire under the command of Günther Ruppelt. U-356 was sunk on 27th Dec 1942. Günther Ruppelt hit four ships on this patrol and all of them were in convoy, all of them from convoy ONS-154. On 27th Dec 1942 he sank the British 2,473 ton Melrose Abbey, sailing with convoy ONS-154. On 27th Dec 1942 he sank the British 5,224 ton King Edward, a member of convoy ONS-154. On 27th Dec 1942 he sank the British 5,952 ton Empire Union, part of convoy ONS-154. On 27th Dec 1942 he damaged the Dutch 7,051 ton Soekaboemi, from convoy ONS-154.

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