German submarine U-1226

U-Boat Infobox
type=IXC/40
fieldpost number=
yard number=
order date=
keel=January 11, 1943
launch=September 18, 1943
commission=December 8, 1943
yard=Deutschewerft, Hamburg
U-Boat Patrol
startdate=Start Date
enddate=End Date
assigned unit=Assigned Unit
U-Boat Patrol
startdate=September 30, 1944
enddate=October, 1944
assigned unit=2nd FlotillaU_Boat Command
startdate=November, 1943
enddate=October, 1944
name=Kptlt. August-Wilhelm Claussen
U_Boat Sink
type=Type of Ship Sunk
total=Number of Ships Sunk
tonnage=Gross Registered Tonnage
U_Boat Sink
type=Commercial Vessels
total=None
tonnage=0
U_Boat Sink
type=Military Vessels
total=None
tonnage=0

"U-1226" was a German U-boat, built during World War II for service in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. The submarine 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. "U-1226" arrived on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States sometime around the 28 October, but following this 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 [ A large number of German U-boats had been lost to Schnorkel defects, and its possible this was the cause of the loss of "U-1226"] . Whatever the cause, she was given up for lost in mid-November and her remains have been found east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Notes

References

* Sharpe, Peter, "U-Boat Fact File", Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u1226.htm U-boat.net webpage for "U-1226"]

ee also

*List of U-boats