| abstract | - German submarine U-229 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 3 November 1941 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as 'werk' 659, launched on 20 August 1942, and commissioned on 3 October under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Robert Schetelig. After training with the 5th U-boat Flotilla at Kiel, U-229 was transferred to the 6th U-boat Flotilla, (which was based at Saint-Nazaire on the French Atlantic coast), on 1 March 1943, for front-line service. She was a member of four wolfpacks. In three war patrols the U-boat sank two merchant ships, totalling and damaged another of 3,670 GRT. She was sunk by a British warship in September 1943.
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