WWI U-boats

U 118

Type UE 2
ShipyardVulcan, Hamburg (Werk 92)
Ordered 27 May 1916
Launched 23 Feb 1918
Commissioned 8 May 1918
Commanders
8 May 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 Kptlt. Herbert Stohwasser
Career 1 patrol
unknown start - 11 Nov 1918 I Flotilla
Successes2 ships sunk with a total of 10,439 tons. (View ships hit by U 118)
Fate 23 Feb 1919 - Surrendered. To have been transferred to France, but the tow parted and she went aground off Hastings on April 15, 1919. Broken up .

Photos of U 118 ashore at Hastings are common. Often, however, the boat in these pictures is incorrectly called UB 118

There was another U 118 in World War Two
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 23 Sep 1941 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 6 Dec 1941. Take a look at U 118 from WWII.


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