Operation: Brausewetter
15.3. - 23.3.1943

Bjørnøya (Bear Island) (1943) Escort of WBS 2 Coburg

15.3.1943: WBS 2 Coburg departed Hammerfest (guarded by U-378) on a mission to establish a new automatic weather station on Bjørnøya WFL 23 "Erwin II" to replace WFL 22 "Erwin" landed by U-657 in 1942. Bjørnøya (18.3.-21.3). WBS 2 Coburg returned to Narvik on 23.3.1943. 
U-378 continued on patrol and returned to Trondheim on 1.4.1943.

Fate:

Sunk 20.10.1943 in the North Atlantic, in position 47.40N, 28.27W, by depth charges. 48 dead (all hands lost).