| abstract | - German submarine U-141 was a Type IID U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 12 December 1939 by Deutsche Werke in Kiel as 'werk' 270. She was launched on 27 July 1940 and commissioned on 21 August 1940 with Oberleutnant Heinz-Otto Schultze in command. U-141 began her service life with the 1st U-boat Flotilla. She was then assigned to the 3rd flotilla and subsequently to the 21st flotilla where she conducted four patrols, sinking four ships and damaging another, between May and September, 1941. She spent the rest of the war as a training vessel, moving over to the 31st flotilla. She was scuttled in May 1945.
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