6th U-boat Flotilla

The 6th U-boat Flotilla (German 6. Unterseebootsflottille), also known as  Hundius Flotilla, was a front-line unit of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine before and during World War II.

Formed on 1 October 1938 in Kiel under the command of Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartmann, it was named in honour of Kapitänleutnant Paul Hundius, a U-boat commander during World War I, that died on 16 September 1918 after his U-boat SMU UB-103 was sunk by depth charges from British steamer Young Crow. The flotilla was disbanded in December 1939.

The flotilla was re-formed as "6th U-boat Flotilla" in July 1941 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Georg-Wilhelm Schulz with her base in Danzig. During the first months it was a training flotilla, but when it moved to St. Nazaire in February 1942 it became a combat flotilla. It was disbanded in August 1944, when the last boats left the base for Norway.

Assigned U-boats
At one point in their service history, each of the following boats served with 6th flotilla


 * GS U-37 (1938)
 * GS U-38 (1938)
 * GS U-39 (1938)
 * GS U-40 (1938)
 * GS U-41 (1939)
 * GS U-42 (1939)
 * GS U-43 (1939)
 * GS U-44 (1939)
 * GS U-87 (1941)
 * GS U-136 (1941)
 * GS U-209
 * GS U-223
 * GS U-226
 * GS U-228
 * GS U-229
 * GS U-237
 * GS U-251
 * GS U-252
 * GS U-253
 * GS U-260
 * GS U-261
 * GS U-264
 * GS U-269
 * GS U-270
 * GS U-277
 * GS U-290
 * GS U-308
 * GS U-312
 * GS U-335
 * GS U-340
 * GS U-356
 * GS U-357
 * GS U-376
 * GS U-377
 * GS U-380
 * GS U-385
 * GS U-386
 * GS U-404
 * GS U-405
 * GS U-411
 * GS U-414
 * GS U-417
 * GS U-436
 * GS U-437
 * GS U-445
 * GS U-456
 * GS U-457
 * GS U-465
 * GS U-477
 * GS U-585
 * GS U-586
 * GS U-587
 * GS U-588
 * GS U-589
 * GS U-590
 * GS U-591
 * GS U-592
 * GS U-598
 * GS U-608
 * GS U-609
 * GS U-610
 * GS U-614
 * GS U-616
 * GS U-623
 * GS U-626
 * GS U-627
 * GS U-640
 * GS U-642
 * GS U-648
 * GS U-655
 * GS U-658
 * GS U-666
 * GS U-668
 * GS U-672
 * GS U-673
 * GS U-675
 * GS U-680
 * GS U-703
 * GS U-705
 * GS U-742
 * GS U-756
 * GS U-757
 * GS U-758
 * GS U-766
 * GS U-964
 * GS U-967
 * GS U-972
 * GS U-981
 * GS U-982
 * GS U-986
 * GS U-999