Qualla: German submarine U-2367 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/b/german-submarine-u-2367-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: German submarine U-2367 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367 German submarine U-2367: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. U-2367 was commissioned on 17 March 1945 - fifty-one days before Germany surrendered. There are war records, and then there are war records like that one, where you can read a launch date and a sinking date and realise the entire operational career fits between two pages of a calendar. The Type XXIII was the Kriegsmarine's last-throw small-coastal submarine: fast underwater, hard to detect, devastating in concept. By the time U-2367 came down the slip at Hamburg in early 1945, the war was lost. Heinrich Schroeder took command anyway. Seven weeks later, the boat collided with another German submarine off the Schleimuende beacon and went under. Germany's formal surrender at Reims came two days after.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/b/german-submarine-u-2367-wp/gczb-german-submarine-u-2367-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German submarine U-2367: Type XXIII https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. The Type XXIII was a wartime answer to a wartime problem. By 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic had turned against Germany, partly because Allied anti-submarine warfare had become brutally effective. The XXIII was a small coastal U-boat designed for fast underwater work in confined ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/b/german-submarine-u-2367-wp/gczb-german-submarine-u-2367-type-xxiii.mp3 0:06 2 full German submarine U-2367: Hamburg to Commissioning, In Six Months https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. U-2367 was ordered on 20 September 1944 and laid down at Deutsche Werft AG in Hamburg on 11 December 1944 as yard number 521. She was launched on 23 February 1945 and commissioned on 17 March under Oberleutnant zur See Heinrich Schroeder. The build had taken three months and one ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/b/german-submarine-u-2367-wp/gczb-german-submarine-u-2367-hamburg-to-commissioning-in-six-months.mp3 0:06 3 full German submarine U-2367: Collision Off Schleimuende https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. On 5 May 1945, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz - newly appointed Reichsprasident after Hitler's suicide - issued Regenbogen, the order for German U-boats to be scuttled rather than handed to the Allies. Many crews carried it out. Many others were already trying to escape across the Ba...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/z/b/german-submarine-u-2367-wp/gczb-german-submarine-u-2367-collision-off-schleimuende.mp3 0:06 4 full German submarine U-2367: Raised, Renamed, Sailed Again https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-2367/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. U-2367 did not stay on the seabed. In August 1956, with West Germany now a NATO member and rebuilding a small navy as the Bundesmarine, divers raised her from the Baltic. Eleven years on the bottom had done less damage than might have been expected to the simple Type XXIII hull. ...

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