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U-boat Commands U-boat From To U-29 3 Jan 1941 14 Sep 1941 No war patrols U-160 16 Oct 1941 14 Jun 1943 4 patrols (328 days)For more than a year Georg Lassen was I WO on the very successful U-29 under Kptlt. Otto Schuhart. They sank 12 ships with a total of 80,688 tons as well as the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. From January to September 1941, Kptlt. Lassen was the commander of U-29, which at this time was a training boat in the 24th (Training) Flotilla U-boat flotilla.On 16 October 1941 Lassen commissioned the type IXC U-boat U-160, and on his first patrol as commander in March/April 1942 he sank or damaged six ships with a total of 43,560 tons. Also outstanding was his last patrol, in South African waters, where on 3/4 March, 1943 he sank or damaged six ships in less than five hours with a total of 41,076 tons. Three days later he received the Oak Leaves to his Knights Cross.On 9 March, 1943 the daily Wehrmachtsbericht announced:Der Oberste Befehlshaber verlieh dem Kapitänleutnant Georg Lassen als 208. Soldaten der deutschen Wehrmacht das Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz. Kapitänleutnant Lassen hat auf 4 Feindfahrten 31 Schiffe mit 212,544 BRT versenkt. Zwei weitere Schiffe wurden von ihm torpediert. Siebzehn Schiffe mit 101,860 BRT schoß er aus stark gesicherten Geleitzügen heraus.Georg Lassen then became a tactics instructor and the chief of the "Offiziers-kompanie" in the 1st ULD (U-Boot-Lehrdivision, training division).Georg Lassen died at Calviá, Mallorca, Spain on 18 Jan 2012 after an illness. He was 96 years old. His ashes were scattered in Santa Ponça Bay, with the ashes of his wife. SourcesBusch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II. Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1997). Der U-Bootkrieg 1939-1945 (Band 2). Rohwer, J. (1998). Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two. Sluiten

Op 24.07.1942 wordt het vrachtschip ss. 'TELAMON' (1928) van de KNSM, op weg van New York via Georgetown naar Port of Spain (Trinidad), onder kapitein C.J. Nieman, op de Atlantische Oceaan ten oosten van Trinidad door de Duitse onderzeeboot 'U 160' getorpedeerd en binnen vier minuten tot zinken gebracht. 23 opvarenden komen hierbij om het leven. De overlevenden weten zich te redden met behulp van de vlotten en kunnen later worden opgepikt door het Britse ss. 'Canadoc', die de schipbreukelingen op 27 juli te Port of Spain aan wal zal zetten. Sluiten