Kiel on 3 November 1938. She was launched on 1 November 1939 and commissioned on 12 December 1939 by Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Max-Hermann Bauer, who was...
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as yard number 583 during 1938 and 1939, being completed a few months before the outbreak of war in September 1939 and given to Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt...
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1937 by AG Weser, Bremen as yard number 946. She was launched on 28 January 1939 and commissioned on 22 April of that same year under the command of Oberleutnant...
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August 1938 at Bremen; she was launched in May 1939 and commissioned in August. Between November 1939 and July 1943, the U-boat conducted 14 combat patrols...
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was laid down on 5 March 1939 at DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen, becoming yard number 954. She was launched on 20 December 1939 and commissioned under her...
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1936 and laid down in September 1938 in Bremen. She was launched in August 1939 and commissioned in November. During her service in the Kriegsmarine, U-44...
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(1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945]. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German). Vol...
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submarine launched in 1916 and sunk 4 February 1918 German submarine U-50 (1939), a Type VIIB submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk...
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German submarine U-100 (1940) (redirect from Unterseeboot 100 (1939))
(1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945]. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German). Vol...
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laid down in December 1937; she was launched in February 1939 and commissioned in July 1939. U-42 had a very short career, being sunk while still on her...
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Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft AG in Kiel as yard number 584. Launched on 24 June 1939, she was commissioned on 12 August and assigned to the 7th U-Boat Flotilla...
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German submarine U-40 (1938) (redirect from Unterseeboot 40 (1939))
number 945. She was launched in November 1938 and commissioned in February 1939. U-40 conducted two war patrols during her career. Both of which were part...
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List of U-boats never deployed (redirect from Unterseeboot 3529)
AG Weser, Bremen Commander Fate: Construction suspended on September 15, 1939, and cancelled in May 1940. Some sources claim that the U-112 was completed...
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German submarine U-778 (redirect from Unterseeboot 778)
Der U-Boot-Krieg, 1939-1945: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945] (in German)...
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approximately 1,000 U-boat trainees of the 2nd Submarine Training Division (2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision) in the port of Gdynia, which had been occupied by Germany...
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German submarine U-884 (redirect from Unterseeboot 884)
Der U-Boot-Krieg, 1939-1945: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945] (in German)...
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German submarine U-1206 (redirect from Unterseeboot 1206)
had a total length of 67.10 m (220 ft 2 in), a pressure hull length of 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in), a beam of 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft...
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German submarine U-99 (1940) (redirect from Unterseeboot 99 (1940))
Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 31 March 1939 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 593. She was...
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German submarine U-39 (1938) (redirect from Unterseeboot 39 (1938))
December 1938 with Kapitänleutnant Gerhard Glattes in command. On 14 September 1939, just 27 days after she began her first patrol, U-39 attempted to sink the...
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German submarine U-137 (1940) (redirect from Unterseeboot 137 (1940))
Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II. Her keel was laid down on 16 November 1939 by Deutsche Werke in Kiel. She was launched on 18 May 1940 and commissioned...
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German submarine U-96 (1940) (redirect from Unterseeboot 96 (1940))
submarine as a war correspondent in 1941. The keel was laid down on 16 September 1939, by Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She was commissioned on 14...
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German submarine U-355 (redirect from Unterseeboot 355)
Der U-Boot-Krieg, 1939-1945: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945] (in German)...
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SM U-53 (redirect from Unterseeboot 53 (1916))
Donaldson liner Athenia off Inishtrahull. Coincidentally, two decades later, in 1939, a new Athenia was sunk by the U-boat U-30 in the same area. On December...
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German submarine U-30 (1936) (redirect from Unterseeboot 30 (1936))
program known as Plan Z. She sank the liner SS Athenia (1922) on 3 September 1939, under the command of Fritz-Julius Lemp. She was retired from front-line...
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German submarine U-35 (1936) (redirect from Unterseeboot 35 (1936))
Ewerth. The U-boat was featured on the cover of Life magazine on 16 October 1939, as in the days preceding, it "courteously" rescued all the sailors of a...
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German submarine U-201 (redirect from Unterseeboot 201)
had a total length of 67.10 m (220 ft 2 in), a pressure hull length of 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in), a beam of 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft...
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German submarine U-852 (redirect from Unterseeboot 852)
Der U-Boot-Krieg, 1939-1945: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945] (in German)...
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German submarine U-864 (redirect from Unterseeboot 864)
length of 87.58 m (287 ft 4 in), a pressure hull length of 68.50 m (224 ft 9 in), a beam of 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in), a height of 10.20 m (33 ft 6 in), and a draught...
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German submarine U-47 (1938) (redirect from Unterseeboot 47 (1938))
September 1939; this move would enable her to engage enemy vessels as soon as the war began. She left for her first war patrol on 19 August 1939 (two weeks...
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German submarine U-768 (redirect from Unterseeboot 768)
Der U-Boot-Krieg, 1939-1945: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945] (in German)...
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