Qualla: German Submarine U-1109 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/german-submarine-u-1109-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: German Submarine U-1109 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109 German Submarine U-1109: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. She was launched into the Ems estuary on a Monday in June 1944 - hull number 231 from the Nordseewerke yard at Emden, painted in Kriegsmarine grey, fitted with five torpedo tubes and a complement of forty-four to fifty-two men. The war that had built her had eleven months left to run. By the time U-1109 surrendered to the Royal Navy at Loch Eriboll on 12 May 1945, she had completed two operational patrols, sunk nothing, and her commander Oberleutnant zur See Hans Julius Hoß was looking at a country that no longer existed.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/german-submarine-u-1109-wp/gfks-german-submarine-u-1109-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German Submarine U-1109: Engineered to Disappear https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Type VIIC/41 was the Kriegsmarine's late-war refinement of the workhorse U-boat that had nearly strangled Britain's Atlantic supply lines. Displacing 769 tonnes on the surface and 871 submerged, U-1109 measured 67.10 metres bow to stern with a pressure hull of 50.50 metres an...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/german-submarine-u-1109-wp/gfks-german-submarine-u-1109-engineered-to-disappear.mp3 0:06 2 full German Submarine U-1109: Two Patrols, Zero Kills https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Hoß took U-1109 out of Kristiansand on 22 March 1945. Technical problems forced her into Bergen on 6 April with no enemy vessels engaged. Her second war patrol began at Bergen on 17 April - by which point Berlin was a ruin, Hitler had eight days left, and the Atlantic was so thic...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/s/german-submarine-u-1109-wp/gfks-german-submarine-u-1109-two-patrols-zero-kills.mp3 0:06 3 full German Submarine U-1109: Operation Deadlight https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-1109/ Photo credit Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Of the 156 U-boats that surrendered intact at the war's end, 116 were marked for Operation Deadlight - a deliberate, methodical drowning of the German submarine fleet in deep water north-west of Ireland. The Royal Navy did not want them studied, salvaged, or recommissioned. U-110...

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