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Table of operations of Biber

Flotilla Name	Base origin	Commander	Date	No of operational Biber	Mission name or date	Biber sailed	Biber returned	Biber lost	Claims	reports

K Flotilla 261	Feecamp Belgium	Korvettenkapitän Hans Bartels	28^th Aug 1944	20	Base set up
K Flotilla 261	Feecamp	Korvettenkapitän Hans Bartels	29/30 Aug 1944	20	29/30 Aug 1944	18	18		2, A landing ship and liberty ship	No official reports can be found
K Flotilla 261	Feecamp	Korvettenkapitän Hans Bartels	31^st Aug 1944	20				20		Forced to abandon base most Biber destroyed, remainder destroyed in attack at night
K Flotilla 262	Poortershavn / Hellevoetsluis head of the Waal/Maas estuary	Unknown	Unknown	30 *	Base set up					A further 60 Biber where to be sent here by Jan 1945
K Flotilla 263	Assens	Unknown	Unknown	30	Base set up
K Flotilla 263	Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis	Unknown	22^nd 23^rd Dec 1944	30		18	1 (damaged)	(17). 4 lost while under tow, 1 mined, 12 disappeared.	1, Alan a Dale 4,700 ton - sunk.	The 12 lost probably died of poisoning or froze
Flotilla Name K Flotilla 263	Base origin Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis	Commander Unknown	Date	No of operational Biber	Mission name or date 23^rd 24^th Dec 1944	Biber sailed 11	Biber returned 0	Biber lost 11	Claims 0	Reports It is possible that the pilot died from Carbon Monoxide or froze to death after getting lost
K flotilla 263	Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis	Unknown			24^th 25^th Dec 1944	3	0	3	0	It is possible that the pilot died from Carbon Monoxide or froze to death after getting lost
K Flotilla 263	Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis	Unknown			27^th Dec 1944	14	0	14	0	Torpedo accidentally explodes with the loss of 11 Biber 3 sailed 2 lost 1 found adrift driver dead by HMS ready towed to Dover
K Flotilla 263	Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis	Unkown			29^th 30^th Jan 1945	15	8	7	0	1 Lost after collision with ice, 5 more forced to return with ice damage, 1 found beached, 5 failed to return, poss. lost or died from carbon monoxide poisoning
Flotilla name K Flotilla 263	Base origin Hellevoetsluis	Commander	Date	No of active Biber	Mission name or date 6^th March	Biber sailed 33	Biber returned 0	Biber Lost 9	Claims 0	Reports 14 sunk and 9 damaged with another torpedo accident, 4 abandoned, 1 sunk , 5 vanished
K Flotilla 263	Poortershavn and Hellevoetsluis				11^th and 12^th March 1945	15	2	13	0	2, sunk by RAF, 4 sunk by MIs, 4 sunk by shore battery,1 Sunk by spitfire,1 sunk by HMS retalick
K flotilla 263	Hellevoetsluis				23^rd 24^th March 1945	16	7	9	0	4 sank by HMS Retalick. 1 Abandoned on Schouwen, 1 sank by Beaufighter of 254 Squadron off Goree. Fates of the others unknown.
K Flotilla 263

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