Qualla: German submarine U-1005 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: German submarine U-1005 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005 German submarine U-1005: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. The breathing tube changed everything for the last U-boats. Fitted with a Schnorchel sometime before February 1945, U-1005 could finally run her diesel engines while submerged, hidden from the radar-equipped aircraft that had killed so many of her predecessors on the surface. It came too late. By the time the device gave her some chance of survival, the Allies had won the Atlantic and the German war was weeks from collapse. She sailed two patrols. She found no targets. She surrendered at Bergen in May 1945 and was hauled to a Scottish loch to wait for the British to come and sink her.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/gccu-german-submarine-u-1005-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German submarine U-1005: Hamburg, 1943 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Blohm und Voss laid down her keel on 29 January 1943 in Hamburg, a city that would be firestormed five months later by RAF Bomber Command - Operation Gomorrah, which killed 37,000 people in a single week. The shipyard kept building U-boats. U-1005 was yard number 205, a Type VIIC...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/gccu-german-submarine-u-1005-hamburg-1943.mp3 0:06 2 full German submarine U-1005: The Snorkel Refit https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sometime before February 1945, U-1005 had a Schnorchel - a Dutch invention captured by the Germans and rapidly copied - installed in her conning tower. The device was a hinged tube that ran from the diesel engines to the surface, allowing the boat to recharge her batteries and ru...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/gccu-german-submarine-u-1005-the-snorkel-refit.mp3 0:06 3 full German submarine U-1005: Two Patrols, No Sinkings https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. U-1005's two war patrols left no trace in the Allied shipping records. She sank nothing, damaged nothing, was sunk by nothing. What this meant in practice was long weeks submerged in cold, dark, foul-smelling air, the crew sleeping in shifts on damp bunks, listening for the prope...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/gccu-german-submarine-u-1005-two-patrols-no-sinkings.mp3 0:06 4 full German submarine U-1005: Surrender at Bergen https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 14 May 1945, six days after the German surrender took effect, U-1005 hauled into Bergen, Norway, and gave herself up. Methner and his crew were processed, interned, and eventually sent home. The boat herself was transferred to Loch Ryan in Scotland on 2 June, joining the growi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/u/german-submarine-u-1005-wp/gccu-german-submarine-u-1005-surrender-at-bergen.mp3 0:06 5 full German submarine U-1005: Foundered Under Tow https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1005/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 5 December 1945 the tug took up the cable and U-1005 began the last journey of her short, uneventful life. The North Atlantic in early December is the Atlantic at its worst - long, building swells, cold rain, gale-force winds rolling in from the southwest with no continent to ...

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