WWI U-boats
U 46
| Type | U 43 | ||||||||
| Shipyard | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig (Werk 24) | ||||||||
| Ordered | 4 Aug 1914 | ||||||||
| Launched | 18 May 1915 | ||||||||
| Commissioned | 17 Dec 1915 | ||||||||
| Commanders |
| ||||||||
| Career | 11 patrols | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Successes | 52 ships sunk with a total of 140,314 tons. 1 ship damaged with a total of 7,378 tons. (View ships hit by U 46) | ||||||||
| Fate |
26 Nov 1918 - Surrendered to Japan. In japanese service as the O2 1920-21.
Partially dismantled at Kure Navy Yard in April 1921 but then rebuilt at Yokosuka Navy Yard 1925 as a testbed for submarine salvage operations carried out by the tender ASAHI. During her transfer from Yokosuka to Kure on 21 April 1925 she was caught by a storm (not typhoon as written in some sources) and lost. On 5 Aug \'27 her hulk was spotted by a U.S. merchant west of Oahu and later scuttled.. | ||||||||
There was another U 46 in World War Two
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 10 Sep 1938 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 2 Nov 1938. Take a look at U 46 from WWII.