Type: X-B
Built by: Germania Werft (Kiel)
Launched: 6 October 1942
Commissioned: 12 December 1942
Feldpost Nr: M49090
Sunk: Not sunk
Sunk by: Not sunk
Location sunk: Not sunk
Position sunk: Not sunk (No men lost)

U-219

The only Skipper of U-219 was Korvettenkapitän Burghagen. He had no other prior commands. U-219 was one of a very rare minelaying boat, the largest in the Kriegsmarine fleet.

U-219 was initially attached to the 12th U-Bootflottille based in Bordeaux then she was transferred to the Japanese Navy and renamed I-505. She had a rather quiet and uneventful career in the war, much more so than her Frontboot comrades.

She had just one patrol in which she acted as a supply boat, provisioning five Frontboots in the Atlantic over 23 August until 11 December 1944. She was then sent to Japan and was turned over to the I.J.N. at Jakarta in the Indian Ocean.

She was in port in Batavia when Japan surrendered and U-219/I-505 was broken up for scrap in 1947. This boat and this Skipper made no attacks on any shipping in the course of the war.