page_title: German submarine U-426
section_title: Patrols and loss
hierarchical_section_title: German submarine U-426 / Service history / Patrols and loss
caption_attribution_description: English: U-boat Warfare 1939-1945 U-boat Losses: U 426 a Type VIIC submarine, down by the stern and sinking, after attacks by a Short Sunderland flying boat.
context_page_description: German submarine U-426 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
  She carried out two patrols. She was a member of seven wolfpacks. She sank one ship.
  She was sunk by an Australian aircraft in January 1944
context_section_description: The boat's first patrol was preceded by a trip from Kiel in Germany to Bergen in Norway. U-426 then left Bergen on 5 October 1943 and headed for the Atlantic Ocean via the gap between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. She sank the British ship Essex Lance on 15 October 408 nautical miles (756 km; 470 mi) east of Cape Farewell (Greenland). The submarine arrived in Brest in occupied France on 29 November.
  Her second sortie began on 3 January 1944. On the 8th, she was attacked and sunk by depth charges dropped by an Australian Sunderland flying boat of No. 10 Squadron RAAF.
  Fifty-one men went down with the U-boat; there were no survivors.
caption: U-426 a Type VIIC submarine, down by the stern and sinking, after attacks by a Short Sunderland flying boat.
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