WWI U-boats
U 77
Type | UE 1 | ||||
Shipyard | Vulcan, Hamburg (Werk 59) | ||||
Ordered | 9 Mar 1915 | ||||
Launched | 9 Jan 1916 | ||||
Commissioned | 10 Mar 1916 | ||||
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Career | 2 patrols | ||||
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Successes | No successes | ||||
Fate | 7 Jul 1916 - Lost after this date while on a mission to lay mines off Kinnaird Head, Scotland. 33 dead (all hands lost). |
U 77 got at least some of her mines out before her loss.
Previously recorded fate
Lost in a minehandling accident off Dunbar, Scotland. The wreck at that location is undoubtedly that of U 74.
There was another U 77 in World War Two
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 23 Nov 1940 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 18 Jan 1941. Take a look at U 77 from WWII.