Operation Regenbogen (German: Regenbogen-Befehl, "Rainbow Order") was the code name for the planned mass scuttling of the German U-boat fleet, to avoid...
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1945 Operation Regenbogen (U-boat) was the codename for the plan by Admiral Karl Dönitz to scuttle Kriegsmarine warships, particularly U-boats, at the...
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cancelled for cost reasons. List of Operation Deadlight U-boats HMS Ferret (1940 shore establishment) Operation Regenbogen (U-boat) Scuttling of the German fleet...
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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,...
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Kriegsmarine (redirect from U-Boat Arm)
campaign in the Caribbean Sea; launched in conjunction with Operation Drumbeat Regenbogen ("Rainbow") (1942) – failed attack on Arctic convoy JW 51B,...
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Operation Regenbogen (disambiguation) Operation Regenbogen (Arctic) Operation Regenbogen (U-boat) First Camp German stock-listed company Regenbogen AG...
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U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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Operation Rainbow (Unternehmen Regenbogen) was a 1942 sortie into the Arctic Ocean by warships of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during the...
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German submarine U-552 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down on 1 December 1939...
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German submarine U-48 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, and the most successful that was commissioned. During...
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German submarine U-822 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 20 January 1941, and was laid down...
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U-29 was scuttled in Kupfermühlen Bay, (east of Flensburg), on 5 May 1945 as part of Operation Regenbogen. The wreck was still in situ as of 1993. U-29...
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German submarine U-37 was a Type IXA U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 15 March 1937 at the...
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Black May (1943) (redirect from Stalingrad of the U-boat arm)
Battle of the Atlantic campaign during World War II, when the German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) suffered high casualties with fewer Allied ships sunk; it...
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German submarine U-17 was a Type IIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. It was built in Germaniawerft, Kiel, where it was laid down on 1 July 1935...
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Type XIV submarine (redirect from Type XIV U-Boat)
The Type XIV U-boat was designed to resupply other U-boats, being the only submarine tenders built which were not surface ships. It was nicknamed in German...
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off Norway Primrose (1941) – capture of U-110's Enigma cypher machine and documents by HMS Bulldog Regenbogen ("Rainbow") (1942) Germany – failed German...
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List of successful U-boats contains lists of the most successful German U-boats in the two World Wars based on total tonnage. This list contains the 5...
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of Operation Regenbogen. Her wreck was raised and broken up in 1947. Busch & Röll 1997, p. 384. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Rolf Bahn". German U-boats of WWII...
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fifty-two men. U-3503 was scuttled on 8 May 1945, west of Gothenburg, Sweden, in the Kattegat, as part of Operation Regenbogen. The U-boat had earlier been...
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List of U-boat flotillas contains lists of the German U-boat flotillas in the two World Wars. The bases shown here are the ones at which the flotillas...
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surrendering the boat to the Allies as part of Operation Regenbogen. The wreck of the U-boat was later raised and broken up in 1948. U-30 took part in...
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fleet at Toulon – during the Second World War, 1942 Operation Deadlight Operation Regenbogen (U-boat) Simms, B. (2014). "Against a 'world of enemies': The...
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Type XXI submarine (redirect from Type XXI U-boat)
Four other boats lie off the coast of Northern Ireland, where they were sunk during 1946 as part of Operation Deadlight. Both U-2511 and U-2506 were found...
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Type IX submarine (redirect from Type IX U-boat)
U-boats. U-177 U-178 U-179 U-180 U-181 U-182 U-195 U-196 U-197 U-198 U-199 U-200 U-847 U-848 U-849 U-850 U-851 U-852 U-859 U-860 U-861 U-862 U-863 U-864...
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U-27 U-28 U-29 U-30 U-31 U-32 U-33 U-34 U-35 U-36 U-45 U-46 U-47 U-48 U-49 U-50 U-51 U-52 U-53 U-54 U-55 U-73 U-74 U-75 U-76 U-83 U-84 U-85 U-86 U-87 U-99...
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German submarine U-57 was a Type IIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served in the Second World War. She was built by Deutsche Werke in Kiel...
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The 1st U-boat flotilla (German 1. Unterseebootsflottille) also known as the Weddigen flotilla, was the first operational U-boat unit in Nazi Germany's...
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German submarine Hai (redirect from German submarine U-Hai (S 170))
by 1.2 meters. On 8 May 1945, U-2365 was scuttled northwest of Anholt in the Kattegat as part of Operation Regenbogen. The wreck was originally located...
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Scuttled at Kiel on May 2, 1945, as part of Operation Regenbogen. Later raised and broken up. U-boat.net webpage for U-2327 Type: XXIII Construction Laid Down:...
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