72750°N 3.36750°W / 47.72750; -3.36750 Lorient Submarine Base was a submarine naval base located in Lorient, France. It was built in 1941 by the German...

Germans, then occupying France, chose to establish a U-boat base at Lorient. The submarine facilities quickly became targets of constant bombing from Allied...

Since 2010, Flore has been used as a museum ship at the Lorient Submarine Base. The submarine was christened Flore on 17 April 1956. It was placed under...

related to Base sous-marine de Saint-Nazaire. Lorient Submarine Base St Nazaire Raid "M 19 mortar, U-boat base". Lars Hellwinkel: Hitler's Gate to the Atlantic...

A submarine pen (U-Boot-Bunker in German) is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally...

the advent of the Second World War and the construction of the Lorient Submarine Base nearby. Following the conclusion of hostilities, the facility resumed...

A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel. Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue...

officer to the supply submarine ("milk cow") U-462, U-505 limped back to Lorient on reduced power. After six months in Lorient for repairs, U-505 started...

War to support German submarine operations from the nearby base in Lorient. It is also known as Lann Bihoue Naval Air Base (Base Aéronavale de Lann Bihoué)...

of Larmor-Plage, Lorient and Lanester and to the east by those of Kervignac, Locmiquélic, Port-Louis and Gâvres. Lorient Submarine Base Keroman fishing...

The history of Lorient begins with the town's foundation in 1666 as a base for the French East India Company. This role was reinforced in 1675 during...

not go down until the 28th, following a salvage attempt. The submarine returned to Lorient on 14 June. U-155's third and most successful foray was conducted...

before returning to Lorient on 10 July. The submarine left Lorient on her fifth patrol on 20 August 1942. She would not see her base again until December...

September 1961, she again got underway from Cherbourg, called at Lorient Submarine Base in Lorient, France, on 13 September to bring aboard a new commanding...

(considered possible after 32 French fatalities in an air raid at Lorient Submarine Base) stated that all repairs on the surface fleet would cease and U-boat...

September by torpedoes U-515 returned to her base at Lorient, in occupied France on 14 October. U-515 left Lorient on 7 November for her second patrol. While...

German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp...

connecting Japan and Nazi Germany by submarine. She was the first Japanese submarine to reach Europe, arriving at Lorient, France in August 1942. I-30 returned...

German submarine U-38 was a Type IXA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 15 April 1937...

German submarine U-530 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg...

German submarine U-506 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 11 July 1940 at the Deutsche...

Rhône and the submarine Sfax belonged to Vichy France and were sunk in error. After five weeks on the high seas, U-37 returned to Lorient on 14 January...

to base after 36 days, on 28 November, having had no successes. U-511, now under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Fritz Schneewind, left Lorient once...

master was found and taken prisoner. He was landed at Lorient when the submarine returned to base and was transferred, initially to Wilhelmshaven then...

Calabria on 8 December and Empire Jaguar the next day. The submarine returned to Lorient on 12 December. On 13 February 1941 Arthur F. Corwin was damaged...

last time that any Allied vessels were hit by the submarine. Following her departure from Lorient on 31 March 1943, she headed out into the Mid-Atlantic...

German submarine U-99 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 31 March 1939 at the Friedrich Krupp...

U-66 headed for her new base at Lorient, on the French Atlantic coast (one of the first to do so) and where the U-boat was based for the rest of her career...

Panamanian Valera. The ship broke in two before sinking. The submarine had departed Lorient on 23 January 1944 and returned there on 10 July. She was on...

she spent the rest of the patrol reporting on the weather. The submarine docked at Lorient on the French Atlantic coast, on 16 September. U-124's second...