German submarine U-360

German submarine U-360 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II.

She carried out five patrols before being sunk in the Norwegian Sea by a British warship in April 1944.

She was a member of five wolfpacks.

She damaged one ship and one warship.

Service history
The submarine was laid down on 9 August 1941 at the Flensburger Schiffsbau yard at Flensburg as 'werk' 479, launched on 28 July 1942 and commissioned on 12 November under the command of Oberleutnant Hans-Jügen Bühring.

She served with the 5th U-boat Flotilla from 12 November 1942 and the 13th flotilla from 1 July 1943.

1st patrol
The boat's first patrol was preceded by trips from Kiel in Germany to Bergen and then Narvik in Norway, from where she departed on 16 August 1943. She sailed southwest of Svalbard and west of Bear Island. She docked in Hammerfest on 24 September.

2nd and 3rd patrols
Her second foray was a repeat of her first - finishing in Narvik on 19 November 1943.

The submarine's third patrol took her around Bear Island.

4th patrol
Sortie number four saw the boat damaging HMS Obdurate southeast of Bear Island on 25 January 1944. She also damaged the Fort Bellingham the next day. This ship was subsequently sunk by U-957.

5th patrol and loss
Having moved from Hammerfest to Trondheim, U-360 started her fifth patrol on 29 March 1944. On 2 April, she was sunk southwest of Bear Island by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Keppel.

51 men died in the U-boat; there were no survivors.