"U-Boats" Topic
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| archstanton73 | 28 Apr 2008 5:22 a.m. PST |
Just a quick question: In WW1 the U-boats were numbered 1-100 etc based on their age…Now in WW2 did Germany continue from the last U-boat in WW1 or just start again?
Cheers Arch |
| Cheshire Cat | 28 Apr 2008 5:34 a.m. PST |
According to uboat.net the first WWII uboat was U-1. Laid down on 11 Feb 1935. Probably lost on 16 April 1940 to a British mine. Nate |
| Big Martin | 28 Apr 2008 6:32 a.m. PST |
Basically, they started again with U1 as Cheshire Cat says. They worked forward from there but not all deliveries were in numerical order. Batches would be numbered at the ordering stage not the delivery stage. Add in some cancellations to the picture and the numbering gets a little more haphazard looking. |
| Yankyaeger | 28 Apr 2008 6:39 a.m. PST |
I had read somewhere where, in WWII, they stopped numbering them in any specific order, in order to decieve the enemy as to the total number of boats in service or "sunk". But had adopted an abstract way to identify the boats. Just as in the later Type XXI boats, there was a U-2501, I think. BUT, I doubt they had 2,500 U-boats. I could be way wrong…. But just thought I would check. Cheers!
-Troy |
| reddrabs | 28 Apr 2008 11:06 a.m. PST |
Yankyaeger, correct. U-Boat numbers were in batches |
| archstanton73 | 28 Apr 2008 12:36 p.m. PST |
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onmilitarymatters  | 01 May 2008 1:16 p.m. PST |
Sharkhunters.com publishes a U-boat (paper) magazine called KTB, focusing mostly on WWII (with a considerable number of interviews with U-boat captains). Dennis at OMM |
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