WWI U-boats
U 48
| Type | U 43 | ||||||||
| Shipyard | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig (Werk 26) | ||||||||
| Ordered | 4 Aug 1914 | ||||||||
| Launched | 3 Oct 1915 | ||||||||
| Commissioned | 22 Apr 1916 | ||||||||
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| Career | 8 patrols | ||||||||
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| Successes | 34 ships sunk with a total of 104,558 tons. 1 ship damaged with a total of 180 tons. 2 ships taken as prize with a total of 5,904 tons. (View ships hit by U 48) | ||||||||
| Fate | 24 Nov 1917 - While waiting for the moon to set, U 48 drifted and eventually went aground at high tide on the Goodwin Sands. She was discovered at dawn by British patrol craft. After a brief exchange of gunfire, scuttling charges were set and the crew abandoned the boat.. 19 dead and 22 survivors. | ||||||||
The shifting sands of the Goodwin Sands occassional expose the wreck of U 48
There was another U 48 in World War Two
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 8 Mar 1939 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 22 Apr 1939. Take a look at U 48 from WWII.