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| U-545 | Type IXC/40 |
| Feldpost Number | M 52 062 |
| Construction Yard | Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg-Finkenwärder |
| Yard Number | 366 |
| Ordered | 5th Jun 1941 |
| Keel laid | 1st Aug 1942 |
| Launched | 3rd Mar 1943 |
| Commissioned | 19th May 1943 |
| Baubelehrung | 8.KLA, Hamburg | | Training, Flotillas and Duties | | 05.43 - 11.43 | 4.U-Flottille, Stettin
Ausbildungsboot (under training)
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| 12.43 - 02.44 | 2.U-Flottille, Lorient
Frontboot (operational)
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| Commanders | | 19.05.43 - 10.02.44 | OLdR ~ KLdR Gert Mannesmann
see also: U-2502 |
| Operations information for U-545 | 09.12.1943 - 10.02.1944
First Sailing - active patrol
U-545 left Kiel under the command of Gert Mannesmann on 9th Dec 1943. The boat was sunk on 10th Feb 1944.
Gert Mannesmann hit one ship on this patrol from convoy ON-217.-
On 30th Dec 1943 he damaged the British 7,359 ton Empire Housman, sailing with convoy ON-217.
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| Notes for U-545 | On 10th February 1944, west of the Hebrides the 612 SQN Wellington of 15 Grp CC RAF (PO M H Paynter RAAF) got a radar contact, closed on it and sighted U-545 by moonlight. The Wellington dropped D/Cs and afterwards on passing over the attack site observed what was thought to be crewmen in life preservers in the water. U-714 answered U-545's plea for assistance and came alongside the badly damaged boat, and took off all the crew except one who had been killed. U-545 was scuttled on the 11th. Paynter received the DFC. KL Mannesmann died later in the war on 8th April 1945 during an air raid on Hamburg docks.
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