• Thumbnail for German submarine U-96 (1940)
    Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She was commissioned on 14 September 1940, with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in command. Lehmann-Willenbrock...
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  • between forty-four and sixty. U-95 was a member of two wolfpacks. The boat left Kiel for her first patrol on 20 November 1940. She entered the Northern Atlantic...
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    Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 593. She was launched on 12 March 1940 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer and was assigned to...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-94 (1940)
    Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 599, launched on 12 June 1940 and commissioned on 10 August 1940 under Kapitänleutnant Herbert Kuppisch. She sank 26 ships...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-74 (1940)
    Bremen-Vegesack, Germany as yard number 2. She was launched on 31 August 1940 and commissioned on 31 October, with Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Eitel-Friedrich...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-77 (1940)
    laid down on 28 March 1940, by Bremer Vulkan of Bremen-Vegesack, Germany as yard number 5. She was launched on 23 November 1940 and commissioned on 18...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-69 (1940)
    forty-four and sixty sailors. She was built at the Germaniawerft in Kiel during 1940, and was ready for service in November. After her warm up in the Baltic Sea...
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  • 28 March 1940, in the shipyard of Bremer Vulkan in the port city of Bremen-Vegesack as yard number 6. U-78 was launched on 7 December 1940 and formally...
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  • 1941 until she was sunk in November 1942. She was launched on 31 August 1940 and commissioned on 12 October, with a crew of 46 under the command of Kapitänleutnant...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-100 (1940)
    on 12 October 1940. She came into contact with two Allied convoys, HX 79 and SC 7. U-100 departed on her fourth patrol on 7 November 1940. On 22 November...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-75 (1940)
    Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft (yard), in Bremen as yard number 3, launched on 18 October 1940 and commissioned on 19 December under the command of Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt...
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  • Werft, Germany as yard number 1 on 5 November 1939, launched on 27 July 1940 and commissioned on 30 September of the same year under Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt...
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  • surrendered on 22 November 1918; broken up at Fareham in 1921 German submarine U-95 (1940), a Type VIIC submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-101 (1940)
    Germaniawerft, Kiel, as yard number 595. She was launched on 13 January 1940 and commissioned under her first commander Kapitänleutnant Fritz Frauenheim...
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  • 1940, and commissioned on 23 November under the command of Kapitänleutnant Joachim Matz to serve with the 7th U-boat Flotilla from 23 November 1940 until...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-102 (1940)
    Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel as yard number 596, launched on 21 March 1940 and commissioned on 27 April under the command of Kapitänleutnant Harro von...
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  • Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. U-72 was launched on 22 November 1940 and commissioned on 4 January 1941. U-72 served with 24th U-boat Flotilla...
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  • Fate: Sunk by bombs during an air raid on May 14, 1943. It was raised and 95% repaired in 1945, but was scuttled on May 3, 1945. U-boat.net webpage for...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-201
    was laid down on 20 January 1940 by Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 630, launched on 7 December 1940, and commissioned on 25 January...
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  • Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 4 May 1940 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft yard at Flensburg, launched on...
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  • Fritz-Julius Lemp. She was retired from front-line service in September 1940 after undertaking eight war patrols, having sunk 17 vessels and damaging...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-35 (1936)
    U-71 U-72 U-77 U-78 U-79 U-80 U-81 U-82 U-88 U-89 U-90 U-91 U-92 U-93 U-94 U-95 U-96 U-97 U-98 U-132 U-133 U-134 U-135 U-136 U-201 U-202 U-203 U-204 U-205...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-552
    Hamburg as yard number 528, launched on 14 September 1940, and went into service on 4 December 1940. U-552 was nicknamed the Roter Teufel ("Red Devil")...
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  • and returned to service on 30 July 1940 with Kptlt. Prellberg in command. U-31 was sunk again on 2 November 1940, north-west of Ireland, by depth charges...
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  • History Nazi Germany Name U-615 Ordered 15 August 1940 Builder Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Yard number 591 Laid down 20 May 1941 Launched 8 February 1942 Commissioned...
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  • History Nazi Germany Name U-768 Ordered 15 August 1940 Builder Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Yard number 151 Laid down 5 April 1941 Launched 22 August...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-703
    1939 Builder HC Stülcken & Sohn, Hamburg Yard number 762 Laid down 9 August 1940 Launched 18 July 1941 Commissioned 16 October 1941 Fate Missing since 16...
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  • History Nazi Germany Name U-388 Ordered 21 November 1940 Builder Howaldtswerke, Kiel Yard number 19 Laid down 12 September 1941 Launched 12 November 1942...
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  • U-28 conducted seven war patrols between 19 August 1939 and 15 November 1940, all under the command of Kapitänleutnant Günter Kuhnke, sinking 13 ships...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-50 (1939)
    German-administered island of Helgoland (sometimes known as Heligoland), on 6 February 1940, U-50 proceeded north of the British Isles. It was here that she sighted...
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