U-boat Fates
U-boat Losses 1914-1918
This list does not include interned or scuttled U-boats. Only war casualties.
Date | Dead | Surv. | Fate | |
1914 | ||||
9 Aug 1914 | 25 | 0 | Rammed by HMS Birmingham in the North Sea. ... | |
12 Aug 1914 | 25 | 0 | Sunk in the North Sea at an unknown time and locat ... | |
23 Nov 1914 | 1 | 26 | Rammed by HMS Garry and trawler Dorothy Grey in Pe ... | |
9 Dec 1914 | 26 | 0 | Mined off the Belgian coast on December 9, 1914 at ... | |
18 Dec 1914 | 29 | 0 | Lost by accidental cause off the Belgian coast cir ... | |
1915 | ||||
13 Jan 1915 | 31 | 0 | Final fate unknown. Possibly mined off E coast of ... | |
21 Jan 1915 | 24 | 1 | Misidentified and torpedoed off Dutch coast by U 2 ... | |
4 Mar 1915 | 0 | 29 | Trapped in nets, forced to surface and scuttled un ... | |
10 Mar 1915 | 20 | 10 | Rammed and shelled by destroyer off Fife Ness then ... | |
18 Mar 1915 | 32 | 0 | Rammed by HMS Dreadnought in the North Sea 58°20' ... | |
30 Apr 1915 | 33 | 0 | Mined while homebound near the Sandettie Bank (Str ... | |
23 May 1915 | 14 | 0 | Lost in the Aegean Sea. Final fate unknown ... | |
5 Jun 1915 | 1 | 27 | Disabled and sunk by gunfire from the armed trawle ... | |
23 Jun 1915 | 29 | 3 | Torpedoed by HM Sub C24 in connection with decoy t ... | |
30 Jun 1915 | 15 | 0 | Destroyed by detonation of own mines off Yarmouth ... | |
20 Jul 1915 | 24 | 10 | Torpedoed by HM Sub C27 in connection with decoy t ... | |
24 Jul 1915 | 18 | 15 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Prince Charles off the ... | |
15 Aug 1915 | 15 | 0 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Inverlyon off Yarmouth ... | |
19 Aug 1915 | 37 | 0 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Baralong in Western Ap ... | |
30 Aug 1915 | 30 | 0 | Mined off Hanko, Finland. Date of loss is approxim ... | |
15 Sep 1915 | 24 | 5 | Torpedoed by HM Sub E16 off Stavanger 59°10’N, ... | |
24 Sep 1915 | 35 | 2 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Baralong in Western Ap ... | |
20 Oct 1915 | 16 | 0 | UC 9 was assigned to lay mines off Long Sand. She ... | |
4 Nov 1915 | Ran aground on the Dutch coast in position 52.23N, ... | |||
29 Nov 1915 | 0 | Went aground in a storm E of the Bosphorus at 41.0 ... | ||
1916 | ||||
16 Mar 1916 | 15 | 0 | Sunk by explosion of her own mines off Taranto 402 ... | |
22 Mar 1916 | 38 | 0 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Farnborough SW Ireland ... | |
5 Apr 1916 | 0 | 21 | Entangled in nets from the French destroyer Trombe ... | |
25 Apr 1916 | 17 | 0 | Lost in a mine net off the Belgian coast (51°33†... | |
27 Apr 1916 | 0 | Grounded on the Shipwash Shoal 5159N 0138E. Boat s ... | ||
17 May 1916 | 34 | 0 | Sank in a mine handling accident 3.5 miles off Dun ... | |
27 May 1916 | 18 | 0 | Mined north of Zeebrugge at 51°36’N, 3°08’E ... | |
1 Jun 1916 | 29 | 0 | Date of loss approximate. Missing in the Baltic Se ... | |
5 Jul 1916 | 19 | 0 | Presumed to have blown up on a mine N of Zeebrugge ... | |
8 Jul 1916 | 33 | 0 | Lost while laying mines off Kinnaird Head, Scotlan ... | |
14 Jul 1916 | 34 | 4 | Torpedoed by HM Sub H5 while leaving Ems estuary ... | |
4 Aug 1916 | 19 | 0 | Disappeared on or after August 4, 1916 en route fr ... | |
21 Aug 1916 | 18 | 0 | Torpedoed by HM Submarine E54 off the Schouwen Ban ... | |
27 Sep 1916 | 15 | 0 | Mined in the Black Sea 15 miles SE of Varna ... | |
3 Nov 1916 | 35 | 0 | Missing after November 3, 1916. ... | |
4 Nov 1916 | 0 | Grounded at 5633N 0808E on the Danish coast and bl ... | ||
6 Nov 1916 | 14 | 5 | Struck a mine of Varna in position 43.12N, 28.09E, ... | |
30 Nov 1916 | 8 | 16 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Penshurst at 49.56N 02 ... | |
30 Nov 1916 | 15 | 0 | Lost for unknown reason probably off Danube's mout ... | |
6 Dec 1916 | 25 | 0 | Possibly depth charged by the destroyer HMS Lan ... | |
7 Dec 1916 | 20 | 0 | Struck a Russian mine off Akp?nar, northwest of th ... | |
13 Dec 1916 | 22 | 0 | Mined off Ostend. The wreck was located and identi ... | |
1917 | ||||
14 Jan 1917 | 21 | 0 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Penshurst at 50.07N 01 ... | |
22 Jan 1917 | 1 | Foundered in bad weather off North Cape (71N, 23E) ... | ||
8 Feb 1917 | 7 | 17 | Forced to surface by depth charge and sank by gunf ... | |
8 Feb 1917 | 23 | 0 | Rammed by detroyer HMS Liberty SE of Goodwin Sands ... | |
17 Feb 1917 | 35 | 1 | Sunk by gunfire of Q-Ship Farnborough SW of Irelan ... | |
19 Feb 1917 | 28 | 0 | Sunk by gunfire of Q-Ship Lady Olive ... | |
23 Feb 1917 | 22 | 3 | Blew up on her own mines off Roker Pier LH 54.54.5 ... | |
7 Mar 1917 | 38 | 0 | Presumed foundered in the North Sea on or after Ma ... | |
10 Mar 1917 | 26 | 0 | Torpedoed by HM Sub G13 N of Muckle Fluga, Shetlan ... | |
13 Mar 1917 | 27 | 0 | Lost through unknown cause south of the Lizard. La ... | |
18 Mar 1917 | Sunk at Hellevoetsluis while interned (after havin ... | |||
21 Apr 1917 | 27 | 0 | Struck a mine west of Esbjerg, Denmark. ... | |
1 May 1917 | 29 | 7 | Torpedoed W of Ireland at 51°33'N, 13°38'W by HM ... | |
7 May 1917 | 24 | 0 | Lost east of the Sandettie Bank at position 51.20N ... | |
8 May 1917 | 26 | 2 | Rammed and depth charged by HMS Milne off Calais a ... | |
9 May 1917 | 23 | 0 | Mined off the Flanders on the evening of May 9/10, ... | |
14 May 1917 | 33 | 4 | Struck a German mine off Horns Reef at 55.33N 07.1 ... | |
21 May 1917 | 27 | 0 | Rammed off Ushant (4842N 0514W) by French steamer ... | |
24 May 1917 | 24 | 2 | At 11:20 am torpedoed by French submarine Circé ( ... | |
27 May 1917 | 23 | 0 | Bombed and sunk on May 27, 1917 north of Round Isl ... | |
7 Jun 1917 | 23 | 2 | Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Pargust S of Ireland a ... | |
7 Jul 1917 | 40 | 0 | Missing. Sailed on June 12, 1917 further contact a ... | |
11 Jul 1917 | 40 | 0 | Last contact on July 11, 1917 while en route to pa ... | |
19 Jul 1917 | 17 | 0 | UC 1 was possibly mined off Nieuport in a new laid ... | |
26 Jul 1917 | 0 | 26 | Ran aground in heavy fog near Wissant (between Cal ... | |
28 Jul 1917 | 13 | 0 | Hit a mine and sank with all hands while on a divi ... | |
29 Jul 1917 | 0 | 23 | Interned at Corunna, Spain after being badly damag ... | |
29 Jul 1917 | 22 | 0 | Commonly listed as rammed and depth charged by HMS ... | |
4 Aug 1917 | 29 | 1 | Sunk on her one of her own mines that prematurely ... | |
12 Aug 1917 | 44 | 0 | Rammed by HMS Oracle off S Norway at 58.51N 04.20E ... | |
21 Aug 1917 | 27 | 0 | Suffered an explosion of own mines and was then de ... | |
24 Aug 1917 | 31 | 0 | Mined while homebound through the Straits of Dover ... | |
31 Aug 1917 | 44 | 0 | Sunk probably from a mine off Terschelling on or a ... | |
2 Sep 1917 | 39 | 0 | Sunk by explosion of Olive Branch’s cargo ... | |
3 Sep 1917 | 40 | 0 | Lost on or after September 3, 1917, possibly in th ... | |
5 Sep 1917 | 43 | 0 | Presumably mined off Terschelling ... | |
10 Sep 1917 | 27 | 0 | Lost in the explosion of her own mines off Cork at ... | |
11 Sep 1917 | 43 | 0 | Rammed in Biscay and sunk by gunfire from SS Briti ... | |
12 Sep 1917 | 43 | 2 | Torpedoed by HM Sub D7 W of Shetlands at 55°48’ ... | |
22 Sep 1917 | 24 | 0 | Possibly sunk by bombs dropped from RNAS aircraft ... | |
26 Sep 1917 | 27 | 1 | Rammed by patrol boat P 61 in the St George’s Ch ... | |
28 Sep 1917 | 16 | 0 | Sunk in a mined net off North Foreland at 51°30†... | |
29 Sep 1917 | 11 | 17 | Lost by accident off Lerwick at 60°03’N, 00°58 ... | |
30 Sep 1917 | 27 | 0 | Departed Zeebrugge for the Bay of Biscay on 13.9. ... | |
3 Oct 1917 | 17 | 0 | Mined in a British minefield off the entrance to Z ... | |
4 Oct 1917 | 29 | 0 | Presumed mined off Zeebrugge in October 1917 ... | |
5 Oct 1917 | 24 | 0 | Mined north of Scarborough, England ... | |
7 Oct 1917 | 41 | 0 | Lost in a minefield about 40 miles north of Tersch ... | |
14 Oct 1917 | 30 | 0 | Mined on the Thorton bank near Zeebrugge in Octobe ... | |
1 Nov 1917 | 26 | 1 | Torpedoed by HM Sub E52 off Goodwin Sands at 51°2 ... | |
3 Nov 1917 | 23 | 5 | Torpedoed by HM Sub C15 at 50°31’N 00°27’E ... | |
17 Nov 1917 | 2 | 36 | Depth charged by destroyer USS Fanning off ... | |
17 Nov 1917 | 29 | 0 | Sunk in the English Channel, in position 50.08N, 0 ... | |
18 Nov 1917 | 28 | 0 | Rammed by patrol boat P57 off Flamborough Head 54. ... | |
18 Nov 1917 | 27 | 0 | Presumably mined in the Gulf of Finland on or afte ... | |
24 Nov 1917 | 19 | 22 | While waiting for the moon to set, U 48 drifted an ... | |
29 Nov 1917 | 34 | 0 | Blew up on a mine previously laid by HM Sub E51 an ... | |
2 Dec 1917 | 29 | 6 | Mined 10 miles SE of Dunnose Head. Remained partia ... | |
6 Dec 1917 | 11 | Collided with U 96 off Barfleur and sank at 49°49 ... | ||
9 Dec 1917 | 24 | 0 | Rammed and sunk by trawler Ben Lawer in the Channe ... | |
10 Dec 1917 | 34 | 0 | Mined off Scarborough ... | |
13 Dec 1917 | 23 | 9 | Struck a mine off Terschelling ... | |
14 Dec 1917 | 9 | 19 | Depth charged by French destroyers in the Ionian S ... | |
19 Dec 1917 | 37 | 0 | Mined in the Strait of Dover and sank 50°58’N, ... | |
25 Dec 1917 | 43 | 0 | Rammed, shelled, and depth charged by the patrol v ... | |
1918 | ||||
7 Jan 1918 | 29 | 0 | Missing after sailing on January 7, 1918 for the B ... | |
8 Jan 1918 | 31 | 0 | Destroyed in an explosive sweep followed by a dept ... | |
14 Jan 1918 | 33 | 0 | Lost for unknown reason in January or the beginnin ... | |
15 Jan 1918 | 41 | 0 | Sunk by unknown cause off Penmarch, France. Date o ... | |
16 Jan 1918 | 40 | 0 | Sunk off the Lizard, possibly by ramming on Januar ... | |
17 Jan 1918 | 43 | 0 | Lost by apparent internal explosion on or after Ja ... | |
18 Jan 1918 | 30 | 0 | Missing in the Eastern Mediterranean after January ... | |
19 Jan 1918 | 22 | 0 | Mined in the Heligoland Bight at 5427N 0635E ... | |
26 Jan 1918 | 43 | 0 | Possible mined in the Strait of Dover on January 2 ... | |
26 Jan 1918 | 26 | 2 | Depth charged by HMS Leven at 5103N 0146E ... | |
8 Feb 1918 | 27 | 0 | Ran into a minefield while attempting to escape de ... | |
12 Feb 1918 | 43 | 0 | Rammed and sunk N of Malin Head by HMS Roxburgh ... | |
1 Mar 1918 | 29 | 0 | Sailed on March 1, 1918 for patrol off Portland ar ... | |
10 Mar 1918 | 35 | 0 | Sunk by a mine in the Dover Barrage at 51.00N, 01. ... | |
15 Mar 1918 | 32 | 9 | Severely damaged in a D/C attack from HMS Michael ... | |
15 Mar 1918 | 18 | 0 | Sailed from Zeebrugge on March 11, 1918 and was ne ... | |
23 Mar 1918 | 0 | 29 | Interned at El Ferrol, Spain. The boat was badly d ... | |
26 Mar 1918 | 36 | 0 | Missing after March 23, 1918. ... | |
5 Apr 1918 | 29 | 0 | Mined off Griz Nez, France while homebound, likely ... | |
11 Apr 1918 | 28 | 0 | Struck a mine and sank SW of the Varne sandbank at ... | |
17 Apr 1918 | 36 | 0 | Severely damaged in a depth charge attack by 2 tra ... | |
19 Apr 1918 | 35 | 0 | Mined off Dover in position 51.01N 01.17E on April ... | |
21 Apr 1918 | 32 | 0 | Lost off Gibraltar when depth charged by ML413 abt ... | |
22 Apr 1918 | 30 | 6 | Mined while outbound in Strait of Dover. Sank at 5 ... | |
25 Apr 1918 | 41 | 1 | Depth charged by HMS Jessamine in St George's Chan ... | |
30 Apr 1918 | 0 | 34 | Flooded through not completely closed hatch while ... | |
2 May 1918 | 26 | 0 | Lost on a mine in the Strait of Dover at 51°02’ ... | |
5 May 1918 | 34 | 0 | Missing. Last contact was on May 5, 1918 off the n ... | |
5 May 1918 | 32 | 0 | Sailed April 16 from Germany for Cattaro and vanis ... | |
8 May 1918 | 41 | 0 | Shelled then depth charged by HMS Wallflower NW Ma ... | |
9 May 1918 | 29 | 0 | Rammed by steamer Queen Alexandra west of Cherbour ... | |
10 May 1918 | 15 | 1 | Torpedoed by HM Sub E34 in North Sea at 5206N 0201 ... | |
11 May 1918 | 77 | 0 | Torpedoed in the Atlantic at 3651N 1150W by HM Sub ... | |
12 May 1918 | 10 | 35 | Rammed by RMS Olympic and sunk at 49°16’N, 4°5 ... | |
12 May 1918 | 32 | 3 | Torpedoed by HM Sub D4 at 50°08’N 2°41’W ... | |
16 May 1918 | 25 | 5 | Sunk by gunfire from the French patrol vessel Aill ... | |
18 May 1918 | 2 | 40 | Interned at Cartagena, Spain after being damaged b ... | |
23 May 1918 | 33 | 2 | Torpedoed by HM Sub H4 in Otranto Strait at 41°46 ... | |
24 May 1918 | 0 | 30 | Interned at Santander, Spain after suffering mecha ... | |
26 May 1918 | 34 | 0 | Sunk by depth charges from patrol yacht Lorna in L ... | |
31 May 1918 | 17 | 14 | Rammed and sunk by HMS Fairy while attacking a con ... | |
17 Jun 1918 | 38 | 5 | Damaged by D/C from HMS Lychnis, she surfaced and ... | |
20 Jun 1918 | 30 | 0 | Mined off the Varne at 50.58N, 01.23W after being ... | |
26 Jun 1918 | 18 | 1 | Hit a mine while submerged and blew up in Strait o ... | |
2 Jul 1918 | 36 | 0 | Mined off the Flanders coast on July 2, 1918 ... | |
9 Jul 1918 | 0 | Sunk near Caorlé by mines. Raised 25 July 1918. W ... | ||
11 Jul 1918 | 30 | 0 | Mined off the Flanders coast while outbound on Jul ... | |
14 Jul 1918 | 37 | 0 | Lost by accidental cause (marine casualty) off Pad ... | |
19 Jul 1918 | 19 | 13 | Damaged by D/C attack, she surfaced and was rammed ... | |
20 Jul 1918 | 2 | A fitting in the engine room failed just after UB ... | ||
3 Aug 1918 | 10 | 26 | Hit 2 mines in the Otranto Barrage and sank at 39Â ... | |
4 Aug 1918 | 38 | 0 | Sunk by unknown cause one mile north of Flamboroug ... | |
13 Aug 1918 | 26 | 0 | Depth charged off E coast of UK and sunk at 5432N ... | |
14 Aug 1918 | 37 | 0 | Mined off the Flanders coast after sailing from Ze ... | |
14 Aug 1918 | 34 | 0 | Mined off the Flanders coast on August 14, 1918 ... | |
14 Aug 1918 | 31 | 0 | Mined off the coast of Flanders ... | |
19 Aug 1918 | 18 | 0 | Mined off Flanders while outbound. ... | |
28 Aug 1918 | 31 | 0 | Sunk by D/C from HMS Ouse off E coast of England a ... | |
29 Aug 1918 | 28 | 8 | Hit a mine and sank in the Dover Barrage at 5103N ... | |
9 Sep 1918 | 42 | 0 | Mined in the Northern Barrage east of the Orkney I ... | |
10 Sep 1918 | 37 | 0 | Sunk by D/C from HMS Ophelia off Orkney at 5828N 0 ... | |
14 Sep 1918 | 36 | 0 | Left Zeebrugge for the western English Channel via ... | |
21 Sep 1918 | 36 | 0 | Disappeared presumably in Lyme Bay for an unknown ... | |
25 Sep 1918 | 77 | 0 | Probably mined in Northern Passage as she failed t ... | |
29 Sep 1918 | 39 | 0 | Depth charged by HMS Ouse and HMS Star at 55°13†... | |
30 Sep 1918 | 42 | 0 | Mined in the Northern Barrage east of the Orkney I ... | |
30 Sep 1918 | 34 | 0 | Possibly mined S of Fair Isle passage on or after ... | |
4 Oct 1918 | 4 | 33 | Encountered technical problems while attacking a c ... | |
5 Oct 1918 | Scuttled and sunk off the Flanders coast in positi ... | |||
5 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Ostende in position 51.13N, 02.56E dur ... | |||
5 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Zeebrugge in position 51.19N, 03.12E d ... | |||
5 Oct 1918 | Scuttled off the coast of Flanders in position 51, ... | |||
16 Oct 1918 | 37 | 0 | Torpedoed by HM Sub L12 in the Skagerrack at 5755N ... | |
18 Oct 1918 | 38 | 0 | Sailed on 18.10 and was never heard from again. ... | |
19 Oct 1918 | 36 | 0 | Most likely mined in the Northern Barrage ... | |
21 Oct 1918 | 7 | Sank at Kiel in position 54.21N, 10.10E after a co ... | ||
27 Oct 1918 | 40 | 0 | Torpedoed by HM Sub G2 N of North Sea at 56°02'N ... | |
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E during ... | |||
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E during ... | |||
28 Oct 1918 | 7 | 0 | Mined off Hoxa Gate and depth charged until destru ... | |
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E on the ... | |||
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E on the ... | |||
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola, in position 44.52N, 13.50E on th ... | |||
28 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Trieste in position 45.39N, 13.45E on ... | |||
30 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E during ... | |||
30 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Pola in position 44.52N, 13.50E on the ... | |||
31 Oct 1918 | Scuttled at Fiume in position 45.19N, 14.26E on th ... | |||
1 Nov 1918 | 0 | Scuttled during the evacuation of Cattaro in posit ... | ||
6 Nov 1918 | Surrendered at Venice. Broken up there in 1919. ... | |||
10 Nov 1918 | Taken right back to the dockyard after being commi ... | |||
202 U-boats lost during 1914-1918. |