U-Boats in Swansea

The end of the First World War, as part of the agreements of the signing of the Armistice, on the 11th November 1918, at Compiegne, France. The Allied power, that Germany’s U-boat fleet should be surrendered without possibility of return. 

Below is the list of U-boats, with the dates of when they surrendered and the type and the number of ships, they sunk which were scrapped during 1922 in Swansea.


Uboat

Shipyard

Lunched

Commissioned

Class and type

Number of patrols

Number of ships sunk/tons

Number of ships damaged/tons

Fate

1918

U-107

Germaniawerft, Kiel

28th June 1917

18th August 1917

Type

U-93

5

6 ship sunk

24,663 tons

1 ship damaged

1,084 tons

20th November

U-43

Kaiserliche, Werft Danzig

26th September 1914

30th April 1915

Type

U-43

11

45 ships sunk

114,323 tons

2 ships taken as prizes

356 tons

20th November

U-52

Germaniawerft, Kiel

8th December 1915

16th March 1916

Type

U-51

4

29 ships sunk

70,535 tons

3 warships sunk

18,471 tons

4 ships damaged

12,457 tons

1 warship damaged

1,250

21st November

UB-132

AG Weser,

Bremen

22nd June 1918

25th July 1918

Large MS

 

 

 

21st November

UB-62

AG Weser,

Bremen

2nd August 1916

30th December 1916

Type

U-57

7

8 ships sunk

17,226 tons

1 ship damaged

7,300

21st November

U-164

Bremer Vulkan,

Vegesack

7th August 1918

17th October 1918

Type

U-93

 

 

 

22nd November

U-24

Germaniawerft, Kiel

24th May 1913

6th December 1913

Type

U-23

7

34 ships sunk

106,122 tons

1 warship sunk

15,000 tons

3 ships damaged

14,318 tons

1 ship taken as prize

1,925 tons

22nd November

U-105

Germaniawerft, Kiel

16th May 1917

4th July 1917

Type

U-93

 

 

 

22nd November

UB-120

AG Weser, Bremen

23rd February 1918

23rd March 1918

Type

UB-III

2

1 ship sunk

145 tons

 

24th November

UB-67

Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel

16th July 1917

23rd August 1917

Type

UB-III

3

1 ship sunk

13,936 tons

1 warship sunk

810 tons

 

24th November

UB-79

Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

3rd June 1917

27th October 1917

Type

UB-III

 

 

 

26th November

U-100

AG Weser,

Bremen

25th February 1917

16th April 1917

Type

U-57

8

10 ships sunk

34,505 tons

2 ships damaged

5,272 tons

27th November

U-124

Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

28th March 1918

12th July 1918

Type

UE II

 

 

 

1st December

U-53

Germaniawerft, Kiel

17th March 1915

22nd April 1916

Type

U-51

13

87 ships sunk

224,314 tons

1 warship sunk

1,050 tons

10 ships damaged

46,339

1st December

1919

U-80

AG Vulkan, Hamburg

22nd April 1916

6th June 1916

Type

UE I

17

25 ships sunk

48,880 tons

1 warship sunk

1,025 tons

4 ships damaged

35,608 tons

16th January

UB-49

Kaiserliche Werft Danzig

26th November 1915

31st May 1916

Type

U-43

8

40 ships sunk

72,860 tons

7 ships damaged

31,556 tons

16th January

UB-50

Kaiserliche Werft Danzig

31st December 1915

4th July 1916

Type

U-43

7

39 ships sunk

98,071 tons

1 warship sunk

16,350 tons

7 ships damaged

25,172 tons

16th January

UB-51

Germaniawerft, Kiel

19th December 1914

25th November 1915

Type

U-51

6

19 ships sunk

47,791 tons

1 ship damaged

3,905 tons

16th January

UB-77

Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

5th May 1917

2nd October 1917

Type

 UB III

7

1 ship sunk

14,348 tons

2 ships damaged

28,174 tons

16th January




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