Ordered: 5 Jun 1941
Laid down: 5 Jun 1941 AG Weser, Bremen (werk 1068)
Launched: 8 Jun 1943
Commissioned: 7 Oct 1943
Commanders: 7 Oct 1943 - 5 May 1945
Kptlt. Heinrich Timm (Knights Cross)
Career
2 patrols - 7 Oct 1943-30 Apr 1944 4. Flottille (training)
1 May 1944 - 30 Sep 1944 12. Flottille (active service)
1 Oct 1944 - 5 May 1945 33. Flottille (active service)
Successes: 7 ships sunk, total tonnage 42,374 GRT
Fate Taken over by Japan at Singapore on 5 May 1945, and became the Japanese submarine I 502 on 15 July 1945.
The Japanese submarine I 502 (ex. U-862) surrendered at Singapore in August 1945. On 15 Feb 1946 towed into the Straits of Malacca, off Singapore, by HM Tug Growler and scuttled there (alongside I 501 / U-181) by the frigate HMS Loch Lomand.
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In the south Atlantic U-862 sank 1 ship with 10,415 DWT
ROBIN GOODFELLOW