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  2. SM UC-97 - Wikipedia

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    The U-boat was ordered on 12 January 1916 and was launched on 17 March 1918. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 3 September 1918 as SM UC-97. [Note 1] As with the rest of the completed UC III boats, UC-97 conducted no war patrols and sank no ships.

  3. List of U-boat flotillas - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. U-boat - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of most successful German U-boats - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. German submarine U-505 - Wikipedia

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    U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago.

  7. List of German U-boats in World War II (1-599) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. SM UB-38 - Wikipedia

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    The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 1 April 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 19 July 1916 as SM UB-38. The submarine sank 47 ships in 21 patrols. UB-38 struck a mine and sank in the English Channel on 8 February 1918. [2]

  9. Category:Captured U-boats - Wikipedia

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    U. German submarine U-3 (1935) German submarine U-110 (1940) German submarine U-219; German submarine U-505; German submarine U-510; German submarine U-530; German submarine U-559; German submarine U-766; German submarine U-862; German submarine U-977; German submarine U-1024; German submarine U-1105; German submarine U-1230; German submarine U ...