U-Boat Bases

Around the World

by Wilhelm Hohn


Here are a few more of the places where U-Boats stopped, courtesy of research by Col. WILHELM HOHN (789-1988)

PLACE USED BY
Libau U-679 etc - was the 25th U-Boat Training Flotilla
Le Verdon U-766 and others
Messina U- 77 and others Marvikan U-364 and others
Memel Many; was home to 24th U-Boat Training flotilla
Neustadt/Travemunde U-5 and others. Many U-Boats were scuttled in the harbor here at the end of the war.
Neidenfjord U-584 and others
Oxhoft U-139
Penang U-861 and many Monsunboats
Pola U-205 and others
Pillau/ Warnemunde Many; was home to 21st U-Boat Training Flotilla
Reval U-679 and others
Skjomenford U-403 and others
Stavanger U-242 and many others
Stormelo U-144 and others
Salamis U-75 and others
Toulon U-450, U-466 and many others
Tromso U-354 and many others
Vestford U-992
Valloy U-994

So you see - it wasn't just Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire, la Rochelle and Bordeaux - the boats put in to many harbors and let's not forget `Basis NORD' on the Russian north coast. That was in our KTB some years ago. Germany bases in Russia - strange!


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