Type: IX-C40
Built by: AG Weser (Bremen)
Launched: 22 September 1942
Commissioned: 8 January 1943
Feldpost Nr.: M36350
Sunk: 24 June 1943
Sunk by: Royal Air Force 120 Squadron
Location sunk: SW of Iceland
Position sunk: 58º 15’N x 25º 25’W (all hands lost, 54 men)
The only C.O. of U-194 was Kapitänleutnant Hermann Hesse who had previously commanded U-133.
U-194 was attached as a frontboot to the 10th U-Bootflottille at Lorient.
The conning tower emblem is the heraldic emblem of the city of Hannover, indicating that U-194 was adopted by the city of Hannover.
This boat went through her sea trials in the Baltic, then was dispatched to the North Atlantic to deploy a weather reporting buoy. She was spotted by the RAF aircraft of 120 Squadron and destroyed.
During her short time in the war, U-194 made no attacks on any shipping.
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