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The last patrol of U1206 - sunk by a toilet (allegedly). Live chat 3 April 2025

The Type VIIC submarine was by far the most built submarine and the most successful type of submarine in the history of naval warfare.It was 67.1 m long with a pressure hull measuring 50.5 m. Its outer width was 6.2 metres and pressure hull 4.7 m. It could reach a surface speed of 17.6 knots and underwater 7.6 knots. Its range could take it 12,000 km at 12 knots or it could travel for 150km at four knots underwater. It was designed to dive to 100 metres although tested it went to 165 metres and engineers at the time thought it could reach 250 metres before imploding on itself although recent tests suggest that the submarine could have reached at least 280 m. The U 1206 was equipped with five 53.3 cm torpedo tubes - four at the bow and one at the stern - and fourteen torpedoes , an 8.8 cm SK C/35 gun with 220 rounds of ammunition and anti aircraft weapons. The crew strength of the submarine was 44 to 60 men. On his last trip there were 50 men. Initially the U 1206 served as a training boat under the command of Lieutenant Günther Fritze in the 8th U-Flotilla . In July 1944, the U-boat was assigned to the 11th U-Flotilla and placed under the command of Captain Lieutenant Karl-Adolf Schlitt . During this period, the submarine also received a snorkel , which was fitted in the place of the onboard gun. Karl Adolf Schlitt was born on 16 April 1918 in Laboe on the Baltic at the mouth of the Kieler Förde, a 17km long inlet that leads to Kiel – we get a pretty good idea of what it looks like from this modern aerial photograph. Kiel has a strong naval tradition, especially after the construction of the Kiel Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century which allowed German shipping to pass from the North Sea to the Baltic avoiding the complicated passage through Danish waters. Today in Laboe one can visit the technical museaum and see the U995 which is on display outside as well as the memorial to maritime losses. The U1206 was the first command of Captain Lieutenant Karl-Adolf Schlitt. In the second half of 1944, the U1206 had a snorkel fitted. The snorket was an invention of the Netherlands navy but following the occupation of that country it fell into the hands of Nazi Germany. Initially the Germans could not see the point, they thought of it as a way of getting fresh air into the submarine, which no doubt would have been very welcome but the main use is of permitting the diesel engines to continue to run whilst the submarine was submerged. The Germans had captured three submarines from the Netherlands Navy, the UD-3, UD-4 and UD-5 but they had their snorkels removed in 1941. It was not just the German navy that could not see the point, the Royal Navy also did the same with the Dutch boats that escaped the German forces. However with U boat losses mounting and with the advantages of staying under water clear, the German navy had a rethink. New submarines, the XXI and XXIII types were manufactured with a snorkel whilst it was retrofitted to those of the VIIC and IXC classes such as the U1206. Work was slow, even when the U1206 got its snorkel, still around half of the U boat fleet lacked this device. However there were problems with the snorkel. When in use the submarine could manage a maximum of six knots, like all chimneys and ducts they could get blocked and in this case the engines would suck air from inside the submarine and there was the problem of how to dispose of waste, particularly toilet waste, whilst the vessel was submerged. On 28 March1945, the submarine left Kiel for the naval base on the Karljohansvern peninsula north of Horten in Norway where it arrived on 30 March 1945. It left on 2 April 1945 and went to the Norwegian port of Kristiansand where it arrived the following day. It left Kristiansand on 6 April 1945 to take up a patrol position off the coast of the north eastern part of the UK in the North Sea. For a few days the boat sailed off the British coast without encountering any enemy ships. Thanks to the snorkel, the submarine remained hidden at a depth of 60 m. On 9 April 1945 technical problems occurred with the compressor of the starboard diesel engine. On 13 April 1945 the starboard diesel engine failed completely and mechanics attempted to restart the engine, allowing a merchant ship of around 8,000 GRT to pass by unharmed. This now brings me to the subject of the toilet on the U 1206. While the Allies collected the faeces in their submarines in septic tanks, the conventional German submarines collected faeces and urine in containers that were emptied into the sea while on the water surface.