Type: II-D
Built by: Deutsche Werke (Kiel)
Launched: 16 November, 1940
Commissioned: 18 December, 1940
Feldpost Nr.: M31253
Sunk: 2 May 1945
Sunk by: scuttled by crew
Location sunk: Wilhelmshaven
Position sunk: (no hands lost)

Skippers of U-148 include Hans-Jürgen Radke who later commanded U-657 where he was killed in an accident; von Mollendorf who also commanded U-235 and U-38; Brüninghaus who also commanded U-6 and U-1059; Heinz Franke (KNIGHTS CROSS) who also commanded U-262, U-3509 and U-2502; Heinz Schaeffer* who also commanded U-977; Eberhard Mohr who also commanded U-133 where he was killed in action; and Tammen who commanded the boat until it was scuttled by her crew.

U-148 was assigned to the 24th U-Bootflottille then the 21st as a schulboot (school boat). She attacked no shipping as she was never a Frontboot (combat boat).

Sometime between 1947 and 1953, U-148 was raised and broken up for scrap.

* Heinz Schaeffer departed Norway at the end of the War and surrendered in Mar del Plata in august 1945. U-977 was the last U-Boat to surrender in WW II. Schaeffer became an executive with Volkswagen of Argentina and he wrote the book ‘U-BOAT 977’ which, in my opinion, was full of deliberate disinformation.