Career
He is credited with sinking 23 ships for a total of 73,428 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping. The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Clausen and U-182 were lost with all hands, sunk on 16 May 1943 by the American destroyers United States Ship MacKenzie and United States Ship Lamb.
Ships attacked As a U-boat commander of U-37, U-129 and U-182 Nicolai Clausen is credited with the sinking of 23 ships for a total of 73,428 gross register tons (GRT) and sinking one French submarine, the Sfax (Q 182), of 1,379 metric tons (1,357 long tons.
1,520 short tons). Wehrmachtbericht reference Promotions Bibliography.
