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Allied Warships
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U-boat Emblems
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Hundreds of U-boats displayed emblems in the war, much like many other services from all sides of the war. They varied from typical war emblems (swords, axes, torpedoes etc.) to humorous (Mickey Mouse on U-26) coincidental (the horseshoes on U-99) and many other reasons prompted an emblem. One of the more interesting is the
Olympic rings seen on many boats.
Read more about the U-boat emblems.
List of recent Emblems of the Week
| Date | Emblem | |
| 5 May, 2008 | The Laughing Sawfish - 9th Flotilla | |
| 28 Apr, 2008 | 13 Flotilla | |
| 21 Apr, 2008 | The Wild Onager - U-338 | |
| 14 Apr, 2008 | A Storch - U-1206 | |
| 7 Apr, 2008 | The Snorting Bull - U-47 | |
| 31 Mar, 2008 | The Frog | |
| 24 Mar, 2008 | 12th Flotilla | |
| 17 Mar, 2008 | The Edelweiss - U-124 | |
| 10 Mar, 2008 | The Polar Bear - 11th Flotilla | |
| 3 Mar, 2008 | Crew 37a | |
| 25 Feb, 2008 | The Runic S - U-65 | |
| 18 Feb, 2008 | The Running Devil - U-552 | |
| 11 Feb, 2008 | Metal Glove | |
| 4 Feb, 2008 | A Penguin | |
| 28 Jan, 2008 | A shield |
Want more?
On our members area, The Conning Tower, you can see all our emblems access various information about them (plus searches and the like). Read more about that area here.
Flotilla emblems
Most of the 30 U-boat flotillas had emblems. They are all visible on this page.
Crew emblems
U-boat crews (one batch of officer cadets) often chose their own emblem or insignia. On this page I'll list them all.
U-boats without emblems
According to our sources the boats on this page did not display an emblem of any kind. Please check this page out and contact us if you find a boat here that did in fact have an emblem since that would be new information.
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About these emblems
Starting in Dec, 1998 I've created over
156
emblems in vector format. This ensures much higher quality of emblems and also opens up the possibility of having much larger versions without loosing quality. All Emblems of the Week pages will use vector-created images and older emblems will be replaced by the newer format.
If there is enough interest I might create a few larger versions of those emblems to be used as wallpapers.