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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 ...
List of German U-boats in World War II (1-599) List of German U-boats in World War II (600-4712) This page was last ...
There were some 380 U-boats commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine in the years before and during World War I. Although the first four German U-boats—U-1, U-2, U-3, and U-4—were commissioned before 1910, all four served in a training capacity during the war. German U-boats used during World War I were divided into three series.
But when World War II broke out only months after the plan was announced, only a handful of the planned U-boats ended up being built. [28] When World War II started, Germany had 56 U-boats commissioned, of which 46 were operational and only 22 had enough range for Atlantic operations, the other 24 were limited to operations on the North Sea. [29]
During World War II, about 60% of all U-boats commissioned were lost in action; 28,000 of the 40,000 U-boat crewmen were killed during the war and 8,000 were captured. The remaining U-boats were either surrendered to the Allies or scuttled by their own crews at the end of the war. [30]
This list contains the German U-boats flotillas during the Second World War. After 1941, the U-boat flotillas were in turn organized into U-boat regions . U-boat flotillas of World War II
Ship W2 and SM U-28 during the seizure of SS Batavier V on 16 March 1915. Lists of U-boats cover U-boats, military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. List of German U-boats; List of U-boat types of Germany; List of U-boat flotillas of Germany; List of U-boats never deployed of World War II Germany
Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, U-995 , is on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany .