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The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
U-boat flotillas of World War II Name Type Base 1st U-boat Flotilla: Combat Brest: 2nd U-boat Flotilla: Combat Lorient: 3rd U-boat Flotilla: Combat La Rochelle: 4th U-boat Flotilla: Training Stettin: 5th U-boat Flotilla: Training Kiel: 6th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 7th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 8th U-boat Flotilla ...
U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. 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 U-Boot ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.
Neistle, Axel: German U-boat Losses during World War II (1998). ISBN 1-85367-352-8; Roskill, S. W. (1956). The Period of Balance. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series: The War at Sea 1939–1945. Vol. II. London: HMSO. OCLC 174453986 – via Hyperwar Foundation. Stern, Robert C. U-Boats in action. Squadron/Signal pub ...
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.
10 Top-scoring U-boats of World War II Boat Type Commissioned Total tonnage Ships sunk Patrols Fate Captains U-48: VIIB: 22 April 1939 300,537 51 12 Scuttled, 3 May 1945 Herbert Schultze Hans-Rudolf Rösing Heinrich Bleichrodt: U-99: VIIB: 18 April 1940 244,658 38 8 Scuttled, 17 March 1941 after depth charging by HMS Walker. Otto Kretschmer: U ...
The award was instituted on 15 May 1944 to bring the U-boat force in line with other branches of the German armed forces, all of which had a similar award to recognize valor. There were no specified merits for earning the award; decoration was based on the recommendations of the U-boat commander and subject to approval by Karl Dönitz.
The 9th U-boat Flotilla (German 9. Unterseebootsflottille ) was formed in October 1941 in Brest . It became operational in April 1942, after the first combat ready U-boat, U-213 , reached the Brest base on 20 March 1942.