Type: VII-C
Built by: Germania Werft (Kiel)
Launched: 21 May 1941
Commissioned: 5 July 1941
Feldpost Nr.: M45333
Sunk: 11 December 1941
Sunk by: HMS Bluebell
Location sunk: West of Gibraltar
Position sunk: Not available (all hands, 45 men lost)

The only Skipper of U-208 was Kapitänleutnant Alfred Schliefer, who was killed in action.

U-208 was attached to 5th U-Bootflottille based at Kiel initially then transferred to the 1st which was based at Brest. The emblem on the conning tower of U-208 was the heraldic emblem of the city of Köln (Cologne) which had adopted the boat.

On her first war patrol, U-208 was in the North Atlantic. On 10 October 1941 she joined a patrol line southeast of Cape Farewell. By the 16th she had been reformed into the “Mordbrenner” Group with the mission of reconnaissance of the area off the Strait of Belle Island but found no shipping, so beginning the 28th they moved to the southwest of Newfoundland.

On the 31st, they were directed to a convoy. They sank one ship running independently then headed for home on the 3rd of Nov.

She was operating west of Gibraltar when they received orders sending her through the “Gates of Hell”, the Strait of Gibraltar, to operate in the Mediterranean - she didn’t make it.

SHIPS SUNK BY U-207 UNDER SCHLIEPER
02.11.41	LARPOOL	Brit stmr	3,872 GRT