German Navy Losses of World War II (By Year).kmz

German Navy Losses of World War II (By Year)

1939: September - December

Kriegsschiffe (Major Warships)

Admiral Graf Spee
Type: Panzerschiffe (CB)
Class: Deutschland
Laid Down: 10/1/1932 (Wilhelmshaven)
Commissioned: 1/6/1936
Admiral Graf Spee anchored in the harbor of Montevideo.
Photo Credit: Deutschland-class.uk
Fate: Damaged by gunfire from HMS Exeter and Ajax, and HMNZS Achilles on 12/13/1939, Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled just outside Montevideo harbor on 12/17/1939 by her crew.
Port side view of the Admiral Graf Spee following her scuttling.
Displacement: 12,100 t (standard) / 16,200 t (full load)
OA Length x Beam: 186m x 21.65m
Max Speed: 28.5 kts
Crew: 1,150
Armament:
8 x 3.7cm L/83
8 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes
2 x Arado Ar 196 aircraft
Links:
Langdorff of the Graf Spee
Wikipedia
German Naval History
Deutschland-class.uk

Tiger
Type: Torpedoboot (Torpedo Boat)
Class: 1924 "Raubtier"
Laid Down: 4/2/1927 (Wilhelmshaven)
Commissioned: 1/15/1929
Photo Credit: Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk
Fate: Sank before the war on 8/25/1939 near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea after a collision with the destroyer Max Schulz.
Displacement: 1,320 t (full load)
OA Length x Beam: 92.6m x 8.6m
Max Speed: 35.2 kts
Range: 2,000 nm @ 17 kts
Armament:
6 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes
30 x Mines
Links:
German Naval History
Wikipedia

U-boote (Submarines)

Type: IIB
Laid Down: 5/20/1935 (Kiel)
Launched: Unknown
Commissioned: 9/30/1935
Cause: Sunk by a mine.
Location: English Channel near Dover.

Type: IIB
Laid Down: 8/5/1935 (Kiel)
Launched: Unknown
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British ASW trawler HMS Cayton Wyke and the British patrol vessel HMS Puffin.
Location: English Channel near Dover - 51.09N, 01.28E.

Type: VIIA
Laid Down: 11/11/1935 (Bremen)
Launched: Unknown
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Fortune and HMS Forester.
Location: West of Scotland - 58.35N, 09.02W.

Type: VIIA
Laid Down: 3/2/1936 (Kiel)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Kingston, HMS Icarus and HMS Kashmir.
Location: North Sea - 60.53N, 02.47E.

Type: VIIA
Cause: Sunk by a torpedo from British submarine HMS Salmon.
Location: North Sea south-west of Kristiansand - 57.00N, 05.20E.

Type: IXA
Laid Down: 6/2/1937 (Bremen)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Foxhound and HMS Firedrake.
Location: North-west of Ireland - 58.32N, 11.49W.

Type: IXA
Laid Down: 7/1/1937 (Bremen)
Cause: Sunk by mines.
Location: English Channel - 50.41,6N, 00.15,1E.

Type: IXA
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Imogen and HMS Ilex.
Location: South-west of Ireland - 49.12N, 16.00W.

Type: VIIB
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Inglefield, HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Intrepid.
Location: South-west of Ireland - 50.58N, 12.57W.

Type: VIIB
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Wishart and HMS Wrestler and depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft.
Location: East of Cartagena, Spain - 37.32N, 00.10E.

1940: January - June

Blucher
Type: Schwere Kreutzer (CA)
Class: Admiral Hipper
Blücher at Kiel in early 1940.
Photo Credit: MaritimeQuest
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk by Norwegian shore batteries during the invasion of Norway.
Blucher capsized during the invasion of Norway.
Photo Credit: ReelActionDiving
Displacement: 14,247 t (standard) / 18,208 t (full load)
OA Length x Beam: 206m x 21.3m
Max Speed: 32.5 kts
Range: 8,000 nm @ 20 kts
Crew: 1600
Armament:
6 x 4cm Flak
8 x 3.7cm L/83
12 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes (4 x 3)
3 x Arado Ar 196 aircraft
Links:
German Naval History
Wikipedia

Konigsberg
Type: Leichte Kreuzer (CL)
Class: "K"
Laid Down: 4/12/1926 (Wilhelmshaven)
Konigsberg visiting Gdynia, Poland, in 1935.
Photo Credit: Naval Historical Center
Fate: Sunk by British aircraft during the invasion of Normandy at Bergen, Norway, on 4/10/1940. Later raised and used as a pier for U-Boats.
Konigsberg under air attack at Bergen, Norway, on 4/9/1940.
Displacement: 7,700 t
OA Length x Beam: 174m x 15.2m
Range: 7,300 nm @ 17 kts
8 x 3.7cm L/83
12 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes
120 x Mines
2 x Heinkel He 60 aircraft
Naval Historical Center
The Sinking of the Königsberg
Feldgrau.com

Karlsruhe
Type: Leichte Kreuzer (CL)
Class: "K"
Karlsruhe underway off San Diego, California, on 3/27/1934.
Photo Credit: Naval Historical Center
Fate: Torpedoed by British submarine HMS Truant. Sunk by torpedoes from German E-Boat Grief outside of Kristiansand, Norway.
Displacement: 6,650 t (standard) / 8,130 t (full load)
12 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes (4 x 3)
120 x Mines
Naval Historical Center

Z1 Leberecht Maas
Type: Zerstorer (DD)
Class: 1934
Photo Credit: Feldgrau.com
Fate: Attacked in error by German aircraft during Operation "Wikinger", an operation against British fishing boats. While taking evasive action, she ran into British minefield and sank northwest of Borkum in the Heligoland Bight.
OA Length x Beam: 119.3m x 11.3m
Crew: 345
8 x 53.3cm torpedo tubes (2 x 4)
WW2Ships.com
Feldgrau.com

Z2 Georg Thiele
Type: Zerstorer (DD)
Class: 1934
Photo Credit: Total War
Fate: Heavily damaged by British warships during Operation "Weserburg" (2nd Battle of Narvik) and subsequently ran aground at Rombakisfjord, Norway.
Z2 Georg Thiele run aground in Norway on 4/13/1940.
Photo Credit: Feldgrau.com
OA Length x Beam: 119.3m x 11.3m
Crew: 315
WW2Ships.com
Feldgrau.com

Z3 Max Schulz
Type: Zerstorer (DD)
Class: 1934
Photo Credit: Forum.Valka.cz
Fate: Attacked in error by German aircraft during Operation "Wikinger", an operation against British fishing boats. While taking evasive action, she ran into British minefield and sank northwest of Borkum in the Heligoland Bight.
WW2Ships.com

Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
Class: 1934A
Photo Credit: Schlachtschiffe.de
Fate: During Operation "Weserubung" (2nd Battle of Narvik), Z9 was scuttled in Rombakkenfjord near Narvik after a battle against British warships during which she ran low/out of ammunition.
Z9 Wolfgang Zenker capsized in the Rombakkenfjord.
Photo Credit: Filefront.com
Max Speed: 37 kts

Z11 Bernd von Arnim
Class: 1934A
Photo Credit: Schlachtschiffe.de
Fate: During Operation "Weserubung" (2nd Battle of Narvik), Z11 was scuttled in Rombakkenfjord near Narvik after a battle against British warships during which she ran low/out of ammunition.
Z11 Bernd von Arnim capsized in Rombakkenfjord.
Photo Credit: Filefront.com
Max Speed: 37 kts

Z12 Erich Giese
Class: 1934A
Photo Credit: Schlachtschiffe.de
Fate: Sunk during Operation "Weserubung" (2nd Battle of Narvik) by British warships HMS Cossack & Foxhound west of Narvik, Norway.
Max Speed: 37 kts

Z13 Erich Koellner
No photo available.
Fate: Sunk during Operation "Weserubung" (2nd Battle of Narvik) by British warships HMS Bedouin, Eskimo, Icarus & Punjabi near Narvik, Norway (Ofotfjord).

Z17 Diether von Roeder
Fate: Heavily damaged by British warships during Operation "Weserubung" (2nd Battle of Narvik), Z17 was scuttled near Narvik, Norway.
Displacement: 3,415 t (full load)
4 x Depth Charge launchers

Z18 Hans Ludemann
Fate: Heavily damaged by British warships and abandoned. Subsequently torpedoed and sunk by HMS Hero during Operation "Weserbung" (2nd Battle of Narvik).
Displacement: 3,145 t (full load)
4 x Depth Charge launchers

Z19 Hermann Kunne
Fate: Heavily damaged by British warships and beached at Herangsfjord near Narvik, Norway.
4 x Depth Charge launchers

Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk by HMS Hardy near Narvik, Norway.

Z22 Anton Schmitt
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk by British Destroyers in Narvik harbor.

Albatros
Type: Torpedoboot (Torpedo Boat)
Class: 1923 "Raubvogel"
Photo Credit:
Fate: Damaged during Operation "Weserübung" while entering the Oslo fjord on 4/10/1940. Beached near the Island Bolaerne and abandoned on 5/4/1940.

Leopard
Type: Torpedoboot (Torpedo Boat)
Class: 1924 "Raubtier"
Photo Credit: Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk
Fate: While taking part in Operations "Weserubung", Leopard was rammed by the minelayer Preussen and sank near Jutland on 4/30/1940.

Type: IIA
Cause: (Probable) Sank by British mines.
Location: (Probable) North Sea – 54.37N, 03.35E.

Type: IIB
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Weston.
Location: North Sea 11 miles south-east of Lowestoft - 52.26N, 02.02E.

Cause: Sank after being rammed in error by the German torpedo boat Iltis.
Location: North Sea at Hoofden.

Cause: Stranded after running aground off Oldknuppen Island following a navigational error. Crew interned in Norway at Kristiansand-Süd. Released to Germany on 9 April, 1940.
Date: 4/9/1940 (Aground) / 8/5/1944 (Stricken) / FEB/1945 (Scrapped)
Location: Stranded south-east of Mandal - 58.01N, 07.29E. Stricken & scrapped Pillau.

Cause: Missing, possibly lost due to a mine.
Location: North Sea / Skagerak, exact position unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British minesweeper HMS Gleaner.
Location: Firth of Clyde - 55.25N, 05.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Antelope.
Location: South of Ireland - 49.20N, 10.04W.

Cause: Hit a mine laid by the destroyers HMS Express, HMS Esk, HMS Icarus and HMS Impulsive.
Location: (approx) Minefield Field No 7.

Type: VIIB
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Fearless and HMS Brazen.
Location: Narvik, Norway - 68.53N, 16.59E.

Cause: Mined.
Location: North Sea north of the Terschelling, exact position not known, but probably near - 51.14N, 05.07E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Gurkha.
Location: North Sea in the mid Orkneys - 60.32N, 06.14W.

Cause: Missing, probably lost to a mine.
Location: North Sea, exact position unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Whitshed, British sloop HMS Fowey, French destroyers Valmy and Guépard, and by depth charges from a British Sunderland aircraft.
Location: South-west of the Isles of Scilly (English Channel) - 48.37N, 07.48W.

Type: IIC
Cause: Sunk by depth charges and torpedoes from the British destroyers, HMS Escort, HMS Inglefield, HMS Imogen and the British submarine HMS Narwhal.
Location: North Sea south of the Shetland Islands - 58.40N, 00.10W.

Type: IXB
Cause: Sunk by a bomb from a Swordfish aircraft carried by the British battleship HMS Warspite.
Location: In the Herjangsfjord near Narvik, Norway - 68.29N, 17.30E.

Type: IXB
Cause: Missing.
Location: Between the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay.

Hilfsschiffe (Auxiliary Ships)

Brummer
Type: Artillerieschiff (Gunnery Training Ship)
Class: N/A
Laid Down: 1934 (Bremen)
German Artillerieschiff Brummer.
Photo Credit: German Warships of World War II - J.C. Taylor
Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by British submarine HMS Sterlet.
Location: Jutland.
Displacement: 3,010 t
Crew: 215 – 226 plus 238 cadets
4-8 x 10.5cm
2 x 8.8cm
4-8 x 3.7cm
4 x 2cm MG (x 1)

1940: July - December

Luchs
Class: 1924 "Raubtier"
Photo Credit: Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk>
Fate: Torpedoed and sank on 7/26/1940 in the North Sea by the British submarine Swordfish while escorting the damaged battlecruiser Gneisneau, at 58°30' N, 04°30' E.

Photo Credit: No photos available.
Fate: T6 was sunk near Kinnaired Head after a mine hit on 11/7/1940 at 47°50'N,00°50'W.
Displacement: 845 t (standard) / 1,090 t (full load)
4 x 3.7cm

Type: IA
Cause: (Probable) Sank by British mines.
Location: (Approx) North Sea north of Terchelling - 54.14N, 05.07E.

Type: IA
Cause: Scuttled after heavy damage suffered from depth charges from the British corvette HMS Gladiolus and bombs from an Australian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: Southwest of Ireland - 48.03N, 11.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Antelope.
Location: NW of Ireland.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Harvester and HMS Highlander.
Location: North-west of Ireland - 55.37N, 12.19W.

Cause: Sunk by a torpedo from British submarine HMS Cachalot.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Nantes, France - 47.06N, 04.51W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Vansittart.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Ireland - 48.33N, 10.26W.

Type: IXB
Cause: Unknown.
Location: North-west of Ireland - 55.30N, 08.00W.

Minenschiffe (Mine Hunters / Layers)

Type: 1935
Laid Down: Unknown (Stettin)
Cause: Sunk by mine.
Location: Near Lorient, France.

Bremse
Type: Artillerieschiff (Gunnery Training Ship)
Class: N/A
Laid Down: 1931 (Wilhelmshaven)
German Artillerieschiff Bremse near Laboe.
Photo Credit: German Naval History
Cause: Sunk in battle by British cruisers HMS Nigeria and HMS Aurora.
Location: Mageröy-Fjord, Norway.
Displacement: 1,870 t
Range: Unknown
4 x 12.7cm

1941: January - June

Type: VIIC
Cause: Sunk by British corvettes HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus.
Location: South-east of Iceland - 60.15N, 14.00W.

Type: VIIC
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Anti-Submarine Trawler HMS Vascama and depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft.
Location: North Sea south-east of Iceland - 61.30N, 15.30W.

Type: VIIC
Laid Down: 11/21/1939 (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British ASW trawler HMS Visenda.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Iceland - 62.37N, 16.47W.

Laid Down: 1/2/1940 (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvettes HMS Nasturtium, HMS Celandine and HMS Gladiolus.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Iceland - 60.24N, 20.00W.

Laid Down: 1/16/1940 (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Malcolm and HMS Scimitar, corvettes HMS Arabis and HMS Violet and minesweeper HMS Speedwell.
Location: South of Iceland - 59.52N, 18.36W.

Bismarck
Type: Schlachtschiff (Battleship)
Class: Bismarck
Photo taken from the Prinz Eugen sometime between 0602 and 0609. By then the Hood had already been sunk and the Bismarck hit on her bows. The after turrets "Cäsar" and "Dora" are firing against the Prince of Wales in one of the last salvoes of the battle.
Photo Credit: KBismarck.com
Fate: Damaged by aircraft from HMS Ark Royal on 5/26/1941. Severely damaged by gunfire from HMS Rodney & King George V, and scuttled by crew on 5/27/1941.
Bismarck about to capsize, sinking by the stern as seen from heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire.
Displacement: 41,700 t (standard); 50,900 t (full load)
OA Length x Beam: 251m x 36m
Crew: 2,092
4 x Arado Ar 196 aircraft
Axis History: Bismarck
KBismarck.com
Naval Historical Center

Wolf
Photo Credit: No photos available.
Fate: Damaged by a mine north of Dunkirk on 1/8/1941, Wolf sank at 51°05'N, 02°08'E.

Type: IID
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Fearless, HMS Forester, HMS Foresight and HMS Foxhound.
Location: West of Cadiz - 36.04N, 07.29W.

Type: IID
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer and the British corvette HMS Periwinkle.

Cause: Missing.
Location: North Atlantic near the Rockall Banks – (approx) 60.00N, 19.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wolverine and sloop HMS Scarborough.
Location: South of Iceland - 58.35N, 20.20W.

Cause: Scuttled after being depth charged by British destroyer HMS Walker.
Location: South-east of Iceland - 61N, 12W.

Cause: Sank after being rammed and depth charged by British destroyers HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc.
Location: South-east of Iceland - 61N, 12W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Douglas.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Iceland - 59.51N, 15.30W.

Cause: Captured by the destroyers HMS Bulldog, HMS Broadway and the British corvette HMS Aubretia. The boat was allowed to sink the next day after to preserve the secret capture.
Location: North Atlantic south of Iceland.

HSK-5 Pinguin
Type: Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser)
Class: N/A
Laid Down: 1936
German Auxiliary Cruiser Pinguin.
Photo Credit: Bismarck-Class.dk
Cause: Attacked and sunk by the British cruiser HMS Cornwall.
Location: Near the Seychelles.
Range: Unknown
6 x 15cm
4 x 2cm MG (x 1)
Bismarck-Class.dk

1941: July - December

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Hasty and HMS Hotspur.
Location: Mediterranean north of Sollum - 32.15N, 25.19E.

Cause: Sunk by torpedo from Dutch submarine HrMs O 21.
Location: West Mediterranean, south-west of Almeria - 36.24N, 03.20W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Mallow and sloop HMS Rochester.
Location: Near Tangier - 35.46N, 06.02W.

Cause: Missing - Possibly sunk in British minefield laid by RAF aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay, west of St. Nazaire – (approx) 47.05N, 02.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Leamington and HMS Veteran.
Location: Straits of Denmark south-east of Angmassalik, Greenland - 63.59N, 34.48W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Harvester and HMS Hesperus.
Location: Atlantic west of Gibraltar - 35.51N, 07.45W.

Laid Down: 4/8/1940 (Danzig)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wanderer, Norwegian destroyer St. Albans and British corvette HMS Hydrangea.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Ireland - 50.27N, 19.50W.

Laid Down: 1/4/1940 (Danzig)
Cause: Sunk after being damaged by depth charges and gunfire 25nm east of Gibraltar by the British corvette HMS Marigold.
Location: Mediterranean south of Malaga, Spain - 36.13N, 04.42W.

Laid Down: 1/20/1940 (Danzig)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyer HMS Blankney and destroyer HMS Stanley.
Location: North Atlantic north of Madeira, Portugal - 36.15N, 15.48W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft.
Location: Near Tangiers - 35.55N, 06.08W.

Cause: Sank after ramming by Italian torpedo boat Orione.
Location: Mediterranean west of Crete - 35.31N, 23.19E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Deptford and corvette HMS Samphire.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of the Azores - 44.02N, 20.10W.

Cause: Captured by Britain after being damaged by a British Hudson aircraft. Towed to Thorlaks-hafn, Iceland and salvaged.
Location: North Atlantic south of Iceland - 62.15N, 18.35W.

Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from British sloop HMS Stork.
Location: North Atlantic near Punta Delgada - 38.12N, 17.23W.

Cause: Sank after a collision with the target ship Angelburg.
Location: Baltic Sea near Memel - 55.45N, 20.40E.

Cause: Sank after a collision with U-153.
Location: Baltic, near Danzig - 55.23N, 17.05E.

Type: IID
Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from the Russian submarine SC-307.
Location: Gulf of Finland north of Dagö - 59N, 23E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Kipling.
Location: Mediterranean near Mersa Matruh - 31.50N, 26.40E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley.
Location: South-west of Tenerife - 27.15N, 20.27W.

Type: IXC
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the Australian destroyer HMAS Nestor.
Location: West of Gibraltar - 36.28N, 09.12W.

Type: IXC
Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from the British escort destroyers HMS Exmoor and HMS Blankney, the British destroyer HMS Stanley, the British corvette HMS Pentstemon and the British sloop HMS Stork and by depth charges from a Martlet aircraft of the British escort carrier HMS Audacity.
Location: North-east of Madeira, Portugal - 34.12N, 13.35W.

Type: IXC
Cause: Sunk by depth charges and ramming from the Canadian corvettes HMCS Chambly and HMCS Moosejaw.
Location: Straits of Denmark south of Angmagsalik, Greenland - 62.50N, 37.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British Sloops HMS Kite, HMS Woodpecker, HMS Wren and HMS Wild Goose.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.33N, 10.56W.

Tannenberg
Type: Minenleger (Minelayer)
Laid Down: 1935 (Stettin)
No photos available.
Cause: Sunk by mine.
Location: Swedish mine barrier near Oland – 56 15' N, 16 43' E.
Range: Unknown
Crew: Unknown
3 x 15cm
6 x 2cm MG (x 1)

HSK-2 Atlantis
Type: Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser)
Laid Down: 1937
German Auxiliary Cruiser Atlantis.
Photo Credit: Bismarck-Class.dk
Cause: Attacked and sunk by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire while re-supplying U-126.
Location: North of Ascension Island.
6 x 15cm
2 x Heinkel He 114 aircraft
Bismarck-Class.dk

HSK-8 Kormoran
Type: Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser)
Laid Down: 1938 (Kiel)
German Auxiliary Cruiser Kormoran.
Photo Credit: Bismarck-Class.dk
Cause: Sunk by gunfire from the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney.
Location: Approximately 240 km SSW of Shark Bay, Western Australia.
1 x Fast Attack Boat LS2
Bismarck-Class.dk

1942: January - June

Z7 Hermann Schoemann
Fate: Sunk after incurring severe damage from British warships in the Barents Sea.

Z8 Bruno Heinemann
Fate: Struck two mines and sank in the Dover Narrows while in transit from Rotterdam to France.

Class: 1936A ("Narvik")
Z26
Fate: Sunk by British Cruisers HMS Trinidad and Eclipse during anti-convoy operations in the Barents Sea.
OA Length x Beam: 127m x 12m

Seeadler
Class: 1923 "Raubvogel"
Photo Credit:
Fate: While escorting the Auxiliary Cruiser Stier (Schiff 23), the Seeadler was torpedoed by British MTB 219 on 5/13/1942 and sunk at 50° 48' N, 01° 32' E.

Iltis
Photo Credit: No photos available.
Fate: Iltis was torpedoed on 5/13/1942 near Boulogne, France, by British MTB 221 while escorting Auxiliary Cruiser Stier (Schiff 23). The hull broke into two parts at 50°46'N, 01°34'E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Rochester and corvette HMS Tamarisk.
Location: North of the Azores - 44.10N, 23.52W.

Laid Down: 12/18/1939 (Lubeck)
Cause: Sunk by gunfire from US destroyer USS Roper.
Location: Near Cape Hatteras, USA - 35.55N, 75.13W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Hesperus.
Location: North Atlantic - 36.10N, 15.52W.

Cause: Sunk by a mine.
Location: Mediterranean outside Salamis (Saronic Gulf), Greece - 37.50N, 23.35E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US Coast Guard cutter USS Thetis.
Location: north-east of Havana, Cuba - 24.13N, 82.03W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Mariner aircraft.
Location: West of the Bermudas - 32.50N, 67.28W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Stork and corvette HMS Vetch.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Ireland - 47. 00N, 18.14W.

Laid Down: 3/11/1940 (Flensburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US Coast Guard cutter USS Icarus.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Cape Hatteras, USA - 34.21N, 76.35W.

Laid Down: 3/30/1940 (Flensburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Fame.
Location: North Atlantic - 53.54N, 29.30W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Unbeaten.
Location: Western Mediterranean east of Cape Spartivento - 37.50N, 16.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Hudson aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Newfoundland - 45.50N, 48.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Hero and escort destroyers HMS Eridge and HMS Hurworth.
Location: Mediterranean north-east of Tobruk - 32.42N, 24.53E.

Cause: Damaged by depth charges from British aircraft north-west of Algiers, and interned at Cartagena, Spain on 5/2/1942. Sold to Spain on 2 Aug, 1942.
Location: Cartagena, Spain.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north-west of Mersa Matruh - 32.40N, 25.48E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Westcott.
Location: Mid-Atlantic south-west of the Azores - 39.00N, 30.00W.

Cause: Sunk by a German mine.
Location: Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia - 70.00N, 34.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyers HMS Grove and HMS Aldenham, and destroyers HMS Volunteer and HMS Leamington.
Location: North Atlantic - 47.21N, 21.39W.

Cause: Badly damaged by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft and scuttled on 2 June, 1942 by torpedoes from U-81.
Location: Mediterranean in the Gulf of Solum - 31.55N, 25.11E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Hudson aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic south of Cape Race - 46.15N, 53.15W.

Cause: Sunk by a drifting mine.
Location: North Sea - 59.55.8N, 02.23.3E.

1942: July - December

Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt
Photo Credit: Total War
Fate: Sunk by British Cruisers HMS Jamaica & Sheffield during the Battle of the Barents Sea.

Laid Down: 7/1/1940 (Lubeck)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Faulknor.
Location: Arctic Ocean south of Spitzbergen - 75.04N, 04.49E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wrestler.
Location: North Atlantic west of Gibraltar - 36.09N, 07.42W.

Laid Down: 10/1/1940 (Lubeck)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix.
Location: Northern Atlantic - 48.12N, 40.56W.

Type: XB
Cause: Missing.
Date: (approx) October 1942
Location: North Atlantic – (approx) 45.00N, 31.30W.

Cause: U-132's target, ammunition ship Hatimura, exploded in a huge explosion and U-132 was likely within the lethal radius.
Location: North Atlantic.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Free French destroyer Léopard, British frigate HMS Spey and British sloop HMS Pelican.
Location: Atlantic west of Madeira, Portugal - 33.30N, 22.52W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer USS Lansdowne.
Location: Near Colon (Panama) - 09.46N, 81.29W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Vimy, HMS Pathfinder and HMS Quentin.
Location: Mid-Atlantic north-east of Trinidad - 12.21N, 59.29W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Wellington aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Lorient - 47.00N, 05.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Navy escort vessel PC-566.
Location: Gulf of Mexico - 28.5N, 89W.

Cause: Sunk by mines.
Location: Bay of Biscay near Lorient, France - 47.39N, 03.34W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyers USS Woolsey, USS Swanson and USS Quick.
Location: Casablanca - 33.40N, 07.35W.

Type: IXD2
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Active.
Location: South Atlantic near Cape Town, South Africa - 33.28S, 17.05E.

Type: IXC/40
Location: North Atlantic east of Newfoundland – (approx) 49N, 45W.

Cause: Sunk by ramming, depth charges and gunfire from Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine.
Location: North Atlantic south of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 54.24N, 34.37W.

Type: VIID
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Erne, HMS Rochester and HMS Sandwich.
Location: North Atlantic east of the Azores - 36.45N, 22.50W.

Type: VIID
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British anti-submarine trawler HMS Le Tiger.
Location: North Atlantic east of Boston, USA - 41.48N, 66.38W.

Type: VIID
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: South-west of Ireland - 48.21N, 19.25W.

Cause: Sank after a collision with U-626.
Location: Baltic Sea west of Pillau - 54.25N, 19.30E.

Cause: Sunk by a British mine.
Location: North-west of Iceland - 67.00N, 23.00W.

Cause: Sank after a collision with German U-boat U-221.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 55.00N, 40.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Hudson aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north of Algiers - 37.20N, 03.05E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Whitley aircraft.
Location: West of the Shetlands - 59.50N, 09.28W.

Cause: Sank after a collision with U-634.
Location: Near Hela - 54.45N, 18.50E.

Laid Down: 1/26/1940 (Emden)
Cause: Sunk after she had been badly damaged by a Hudson aircraft. U-331 signaled surrender to a seaplane but was attacked by a torpedo-equipped aircraft Albacore from the British aircraft carrier HMS Formidable.
Location: Mediterranean north of Algiers - 37.05N, 02.27E.

Laid Down: 1/3/1941 (Emden)
Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Saracen.
Location: North Sea north-east of the Faeroes - 62.48N, 00.12W.

Laid Down: 5/11/1940 (Flensburg)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent and corvettes HMCS Chilliwack, HMCS Battleford and HMCS Napanee.
Location: North Atlantic north of the Azores - 43.30N, 25.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Hesperus and HMS Vanessa.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Ireland - 57.10N, 15.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu and escort destroyers HMS Croome and HMS Tetcott and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean south-west of Haifa - 32.28N, 34.37E.

Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from British corvette HMS Dianthus.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 57.11N, 30.57W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Catalina aircraft.
Location: North of Iceland - 67.40N, 18.32W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 63.55N, 00.24E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Impulsive.
Location: Barents Sea north-east of Murmansk, Russia - 75.05N, 43.15E.

Type: XIV "Milchkuh"
Cause: Sank as a result of an attack by a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft and gunfire from the British sloops HMS Wren, HMS Kite, HMS Woodpecker, HMS Wild Goose and HMS Woodcock.
Location: Bay of Biscay - 45.33N, 10.58W.

Type: XIV "Milchkuh"
Cause: Attacked and Sunk by a US Catalina aircraft.
Location: South-east of Iceland - 61.25N, 14.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of La Rochelle - 46.10N, 06.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American B-18 A aircraft.
Location: North of Cayenne - 06.50N, 52.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Albacore aircraft (Sqdn 817/I) of the British carrier HMS Victorious.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Ireland - 46.16N, 17.09W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Digby aircraft.
Location: East of Newfoundland - 47.47N, 49.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Pakenham, HMS Petard and HMS Hero and escort destroyers HMS Dulverton and HMS Hurworth, and a British Short Sunderland aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north-east of Port Said - 32.30N, 33.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US aircraft (VC-9) and ramming by US motor vessel Unicoi.
Location: North Atlantic near Cape Hatteras, USA - 34.51N, 75.22W.

Location: Bay of Biscay, position unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Catalina aircraft.
Location: South-west of Iceland - 58.52N, 21.42W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Wetaskiwin and destroyer HMCS Skeena.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Onslow, and depth charges from aircraft of British escort carrier HMS Avenger.
Location: Arctic Ocean south-west of Spitzbergen - 75.40N, 20.32E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Hudson aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north-east of Oran - 36.38N, 00.30E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: South-west of Iceland - 56.50N, 28.05W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Azores - 46.07N, 17.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean near Algiers - 36.20N, 01.01W.

Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell - 57.25N, 35.19W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: South-west of Iceland - 58.41N, 22.58W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US Coast Guard cutter USS Ingham.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Fortress aircraft.
Location: South of Iceland - 59.14N, 22.49W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US B-18 Digby aircraft.
Location: Caribbean Sea north of Colon - 12.00N, 79.56W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Hudson aircraft.
Location: East of Newfoundland - 50.32N, 46.32W.

Cause: Scuttled after being damaged by depth charges from British corvettes HMS Lotus and HMS Starwort.
Location: Mediterranean near Oran - 36.07N, 01.00W.

Cause: Sank after being rammed by the British destroyer HMS Viscount.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Hudson aircraft.
Location: Near Cape Hatteras, USA - 34.50N, 74.55W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Whitley aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Brest, France - 46.42N, 11.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Whitley and Lancaster aircraft.
Location: North-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.14N, 12.22W.

Cause: Sunk by a Canadian Hudson aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic north of Boston, USA - 43.02N, 64.52W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Morden.

HSK-3 Thor
Laid Down: 1938 (Hamburg)
German Auxiliary Cruiser Thor disguised as the merchantman Santa Cruz in the South Atlantic in 1940.
Cause: Destroyed by the explosion of the German supply ship Uckermark.
Location: Yokohama, Japan.
Crew: Unknown

HSK-6 Stier
Laid Down: 1936 (Kiel)
German Auxiliary Cruiser Stier.
Cause: Sank during a battle with the US cargo ship Stephen Hopkins.
Location: South Atlantic.
Crew:
1 x Fast Attack Boat LS2

HSK-7 Komet
Laid Down: 1937 (Bremen)
German Auxiliary Cruiser Komet.
Cause: Sunk by British Motor Torpedo Boats.
Location: Near Cape de la Hague (off Cherbourg).
1 x Fast Attack Boat LS2

Uckermark
Type: Trobschiff (Supply Ship / Tanker)
Class: Dithmarschen / ex-Altmark
Trobschiff Altmark (Uckermark) in Norway - 1940.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Cause: Internal explosion.
Location: Yokohama, Japan.
OA Length x Beam: 178m x 22m
Crew: 94 - 208
2 x 3.7cm Flak
8 x MGs
Capacity: 7,933 t x Fuel / 972 t x Ammunition / 790 t x General Supplies / 100 t x Repair Parts

Type: IIA
Cause: Sank in a diving accident.
Location: West of Pillau - 54.40N, 19.45E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Fame.
Location: North Atlantic east of Newfoundland - 50.36N, 41.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and a bomb from British Hudson aircraft.
Location: East of Cartagena, Spain - 37.42N, 00.10E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: South-east of Cartagena - 37.10N, 00.05E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Shediac.
Location: West of Leixoes - 41.36N, 13.31W.

Cause: Sunk by a Swordfish aircraft from British carrier HMS Biter, destroyer HMS Broadway and frigate HMS Lagan.
Location: Northern Atlantic - 46.30N, 25.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Australian Hudson aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean, west of Haifa - 33.00N, 34.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a French flying boat, French Naval Air Force.
Location: Near Dakar - 14.15N, 17.35W.

Location: South of Ireland - 47.22N, 22.40W.

Type: XB
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft fromUS escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: Mid-Atlantic west of the Canary Islands - 30.49N, 33.49W.

Type: XB
Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from British sloop HMS Starling.
Location: Bay of Biscay north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 44.59N, 12.24W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Stonecrop and the British sloop HMS Black Swan.
Location: West of Oporto - 41.02N, 15.39W.

Cause: Sunk by ramming by the British destroyer HMS Oribi and gunfire from the British corvette HMS Snowflake.
Location: East of Newfoundland - 52.30N, 45.20W,

Cause: Sunk by gunfire from the US destroyers USS Moffett and USS Jouett and depth charges from two Mariner aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic south of Pernambuco – (approx) 10.00S, 35.35W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer USS Champlin.
Location: West of the Azores - 37.10N, 40.21W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Catalina aircraft.
Location: East of Barbados - 12.38N, 54.39W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Prescott.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Cape Finisterre - 45.05N, 15.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Catalina aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic north-west of Pernambuco - 01.58S, 39.22W.

Type: IXC/40
Cause: Scuttled after a depth charge attack by a British Hudson aircraft on 5 April.
Location: Near the Canary Islands - 27.47N, 15.00W.

Type: IXC/40
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-17 Fortress aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Ventura aircraft.
Location: South of Newfoundland - 43.35N, 56.18W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from the US Coast Guard cutter USS Spencer.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the Cuban patrol boat CS 13.
Location: north-east of Havana - 23.21N, 80.18W.

Type: IXD2
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer USS MacKenzie.
Location: North-west of Madeira Islands - 33.55N, 20.35W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Hesperus.
Location: North of the Azores - 41.54N, 31.49W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Vimy and HMS Beverley.

Location: East of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 59.50N, 34.43W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Hesperus.
Location: South-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 56.45N, 34.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Loosestrife.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell - 53.06N, 45.02W.

Cause: Sunk by a homing torpedo from an American Catalina aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Iceland - 59.00N, 26.18W.

Type: IXD2

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Viscount.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Swordfish aircraft off British escort carrier HMS Biter and by British destroyer HMS Pathfinder.
Location: South of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 55.05N, 42.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Paladin, assisted by a South African Bisley (Blenheim) aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean near the northernmost point of Cyrene - 32.56N, 22.01E.

Location: North Atlantic – (approx) 52N, 38W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Avenger aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: Mid-Atlantic -30.18N, 42.50W.

Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Ville de Quebec.
Location: Western Mediterranean west of Algiers - 36.28N, 00.49E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-24 Liberator.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Australian Hampden aircraft.
Location: North of the Faeroes - 64.05N, 06.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-17 Fortress aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Nantes, France - 47.03N, 05.56W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Sickle.
Location: Western Mediterranean south of Toulon - 42.50N, 06.00E.

Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 54.50N, 37.20W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Truculent.
Location: Norwegian sea north-east of the Faeroes - 64.28N, 03.09W.

Laid Down: 12/16/1939 (Emden)
Location: Bay of Biscay north of Cape Finisterre, Spain - 45.08N, 09.33W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Jed and sloop HMS Pelican.
Location: North Atlantic south-west of Iceland - 58.16N, 28.20W.

Cause: Listed as missing.
Location: North Atlantic - reported for the last time from position 63N, 12W.

Cause: Listed as missing.
Location: Bay of Biscay.

Cause: Listed as missing.
Location: South of Greenland. Reported for the last time on 9 May from approximate position 51.30N, 36.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Fortress aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Vetch.
Location: Western Mediterranean north-west of Tenés - 36.31N, 00.40E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Test and corvette HMS Hyderabad
Location: North Atlantic west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 43.49N, 15.56W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-17 Fortress aircraft.
Location: South-east of Iceland - 63.20N, 10.30W.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from British Beaufighter aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 47.05N, 08.55W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from Free French corvette Aconit.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Pelican.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of Newfoundland - 52.00N, 45.10W.

Cause: Sunk in a collision with U-659.
Location: North Atlantic, west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 43.32N, 13.20W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Sunderland aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.38N, 13.04W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Hudson.
Location: West of Cape St. Vincent - 37.32N, 11.56W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyers HMS Bicester, HMS Lamerton and HMS Wheatland.
Location: Mediterranean near Algiers - 36.55N, 02.25E.

Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from British destroyer HMS Harvester and Free French corvette Aconit.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Hudson aircraft.
Location: West of Gibraltar - 35.30N, 11.55W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Wren, HMS Woodpecker, HMS Kite and HMS Wild Goose.
Location: North Atlantic, north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.00N, 11.59W.

Cause: Almost certainly sank in an diving accident while facing British destroyer HMS Opportune after being badly damaged by a torpedo from a British Liberator aircraft.

Type: XIV "Milchkuh"
Cause: Attacked and sunk by depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay - 45.57N, 11.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: North of Cape Finisterre, Spain - 44.48N, 08.58W.

Cause: Sunk by a US Catalina aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Fortress aircraft.

Location: South Atlantic north-west of Natal - 01.38S, 39.52W.

Location: Bay of Biscay.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US patrol craft USS PC-565.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Baltimore - 37.43N, 73.16W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British coastguard cutter HMS Totland.
Location: mid-Atlantic south-west of Madeira, Portugal - 31.27N, 26.22W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft.
Location: South of Madeira, Portugal - 30.15N, 18.13W.

Cause: Sunk by mines.
Location: Bay of Biscay near Lorient - 47.30N, 03.45W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft and British sloop HMS Fleetwood.

Location: North Atlantic.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Vidette.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of Newfoundland - 52.48N, 45.18W.

Cause: Missing and presumed sunk.
Date: (approx) January 1943
Location: Mid North Atlantic.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Isis, escort destroyer HMS Hursley and a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north-east of Bengazi - 32.57N, 20.54E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British and Australian Handley Page Halifax and Sunderland aircraft
Location: Bay of Biscay south-west of Brest - 46.35N, 10.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Whitley aircraft.
Location: North-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 44.17N, 10.25W.

Cause: Scuttled after being badly damaged by depth charges from aircraft from US escort carrier USS Bogue.

Cause: Sunk by a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: West of Gibraltar - 35.55N, 09.25W.

Location: Mediterranean, north of Oran.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US Coast Guard cutter USS Campbell and Polish destroyer Burza.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Free French corvette Lobelia.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft.
Location: North-west of Lisbon, Portugal - 39.18N, 11.17W.

Location: Atlantic - 48.68N, 29.15W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Vidette.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of Newfoundland - 52.31N, 44.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-24 Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by ramming from British merchant SS Scorton.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Sunflower.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Catalina aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 60.32N, 31.05W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Tuna.
Location: North Sea north-west of Narvik, Norway - 69.38N, 05.40W.

Location: Baltic Sea - 55.15N, 17.15E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Swale.
Location: East of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 58.54N, 42.33W.

Location: North Atlantic west of Cape Finisterre - 43.32N, 13.20W.

Cause: Sunk after being damaged by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft during an attack on 7 May.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Brest - 46.50N, 10.00W.

Location: North Atlantic west of Ireland - 48.04N, 10.26W.

Cause: Sunk by aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Archer.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Drumheller, British frigate HMS Lagan and depth charges from a Canadian Sunderland aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean north-west of Mallorca - 39.58N, 01.41E.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Trenchant.
Location: Near Penang in the Straits of Malacca - 05.46N, 100.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Jed and British sloop HMS Sennen.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland in position 54.54N, 34.19W.

Scharnhorst
Type: Schlachtschiff (Battleship)
Class: Gneisenau
Scharnhorst on sea trials in the Baltic Sea after bow modification in late 1939.
Photo Credit: Naval Historical Center
Fate: Sunk during the Battle of North Cape by HMS Duke of York.
Scharnhorst firing her forward 28cm guns during the engagement with the British aircraft carrier Glorious and her escorts on 6/8/1940.
Displacement: 31,552 t (standard); 38,900 t (full load)
OA Length X Beam: 234.9m X 30m
10 x 2cm MG L/64
Axis History: Scharnhorst
Scharnhorst & Gneisenau

Laid Down: 1939 (Elbing)
Fate: T13 was sunk by US aircraft pn 12/13/1943 while docked in Kiel.
Displacement: 874 t (standard) / 1,121 t (full load)

Type: Flottentorpedoboot (Fleet Torpedo Boat)
Laid Down: 1940 (Elbing)
Fate: While escorting the blockade runner Alsterufer , T25 sank on 12/28/1943 in the Gulf of Biscay during a battle with British cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise.
OA Length x Beam: 102.5m x 10m
Wikipedia: Elbing Class Torpedo Boat

Class: 1936A ("Narvik")
Z27
Fate: Sunk by British Cruisers HMS Glasgow and Enterprise in the Gulf of Biscay, France.

Type: Flottentorpedoboot (Fleet Torpedo Boat)
Laid Down: 1940 (Elbing)
Fate: While trying to escort the blockade runner Alsterufer , T25 sank on 12/28/1943 in the Gulf of Biscay during a battle with British cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise .
OA Length x Beam: 102.5m x 10m
Wikipedia: Elbing Class Torpedo Boat

Cause: Sank after a collision with the U-boat submarine tender Lech.
Location: Memel - 55.42N, 21.09E.

Cause: Sunk by an Avenger aircraft from the US escort carrier USS Santee.
Location: South-west of the Azores - 34.57N, 35.11W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Avenger aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Core.
Location: Sargasso Sea - 30.05N, 44.17W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from US destroyers USS Woolsey and USS Trippe.
Location: Mediterranean near Oran - 36.07N, 00.50W.

Cause: Sunk by a homing torpedo from an American Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Listed as missing after failing to answer radio calls.
Location: North Atlantic.

Cause: Stricken at Neustadt and scuttled there on 5/3/1945.
Location: Neustadt.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British and Australian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: North-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 46.35N, 11.55W.

Cause: Sunk while supplying U-66 by depth charges and a homing torpedo from aircraft from US escort carrier USS Card.

Location: North Atlantic near Vigo, Spain – (approx) 42.07N, 09.30W.

Cause: Sunk by British sloop HMS Rochester and corvettes HMS Mignonette, HMS Balsam and an American Catalina aircraft.
Location: Atlantic - 28.20N, 13.17W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Mariner aircraft.
Location: Caribbean Sea, south of Haiti - 15.57N, 68.30W.

Cause: Sunk by aerial torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft from the US escort carrier USS Santee.
Location: South of the Azores - 33.54N, 27.13W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Mariner aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic near Bahia - 12.30S, 35.35W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and Fido homing torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Bogue and by 200 depth charges from the US destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Du Pont.
Location: mid-Atlantic west of the Canary Islands - 26.29N, 29.58W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Core.
Location: Mid-Atlantic - 27.00N, 37.06W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Catalina aircraft.
Location: South of Madagascar - 28.40S, 42.36E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from one American Mariner aircraft and two Brazilian aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 23.54S, 42.54W.

Location: East of the Azores - 40.15N, 19.18W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft from US escort carrier USS Block Island.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Starling, HMS Woodcock and HMS Kite.
Location: North Atlantic east of Newfoundland - 44.49N, 41.13W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges, gunfire and ramming from British destroyer HMS Keppel.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft.
Location: West of Oporto - 40.37N, 13.41W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Duncan and HMS Vidette, and by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Ventura aircraft.
Location: Atlantic south-west of Iceland - 60.40N, 26.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Vidette and HMS Duncan and corvette HMS Sunflower.
Location: South-east of Greenland - 55.28N, 31.57W.

Cause: Scuttled after sustaining sea damage.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Greenland - 55.04N, 30.23W.

Type: VIIC/41
Location: West of Trondheim - 62.37N, 00.57E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Whitehall and corvette HMS Geranium.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of the Azores - 46.19N, 20.44W.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from a British Hudson aircraft.
Location: Straits of Denmark south-west of Iceland - 62.43N, 27.17W.

Location: North Atlantic – (approx) 57N, 30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Fleetwood, destroyers HMS Active and HMS Witherington and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Near Tangier - 35.33N, 06.37W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian B-24 Liberator.

Cause: Damaged by US air attack on 12/13/1943, and stricken at Kiel on 12/23/1943.
Location: Kiel.

Cause: Sunk in a diving accident.
Location: Baltic Sea near Hela - 54.25N, 19.50E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an American Mariner aircraft.
Location: Caribbean south of Santo Domingo - 18.06N, 75.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US submarine chaser USS PC-624.
Location: Western Mediterranean north-west of Malta - 36.40N, 12.28E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Core.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Sunderland aircraft.
Location: West of Brest, France - 47.24N, 12.10W.

Location: Bay of Biscay north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.45N, 09.38W.

Cause: Sunk by an acoustic torpedo from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Card.
Location: Middle of the North Atlantic - 48.56N, 29.41W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a French Wellington aircraft.
Location: Mid-Atlantic near Dakar - 13.42N, 17.36W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US and British Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by ramming, small arms fire and depth charges from US destroyer USS Borie, during a storm.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Inconstant.
Location: Mediterranean north-east of Algiers - 37.12N, 04.00E.

Location: North Atlantic, last reported position - 48.00N, 21.00W.

Cause: Sunk by aircraft from US escort carrier USS Card.
Location: North of the Azores - 45.13N, 28.58W.

Location: Mediterranean out of Algiers - 37.23N, 00.35E.

Location: West of Figueira, Portugal - 39.48N, 14.22W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyer HMS Easton and Greek escort destroyer Pindos.
Location: Mediterranean south-east of Pantelleria, Italy - 36.25N, 12.39E.

Cause: Scuttled following an attack by two British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Near Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.53N, 10.38W

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Card.

Cause: Attacked and sunk by Australian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay, north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.33N, 10.48W.

Location: Near Bathurst - 12.20N, 20.07W.

Cause: Attacked and Sunk by Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Core.
Location: Central Atlantic - 27.15N, 38.05W.

Cause: Sunk by a Canadian Sunderland aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an US B-24 Liberator aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic west of Vigo, Spain - 42.30N, 16.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay north of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 46.00N, 07.30W.

Cause: Sunk by aerial torpedoes from "Avenger" aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Santee.
Location: Mid-Atlantic north-west of Madeira, Portugal - 34.02N, 26.01W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Mariner aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic south-east of Sao Francisco do Sul - 27.17S, 47.32W.

Laid Down: 4.29/1941 (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by rockets from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: North-east of Cape Finisterre, Spain - 43.37N, 08.59W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer and the British corvette HMS Wallflower.
Location: North Atlantic west of Vigo - 42.03N, 18.02W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and aerial torpedoes from aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Card.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of the Azores - 41.29N, 38.55W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Avenger aircraft of US escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: Mid-Atlantic south of the Azores -35.25N, 27.56W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Blenheim aircraft
Location: Gulf of Oman - 25.28N, 56.50E.

Location: North-east of Cape Finisterre, Spain - 43.38N, 09.13W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Nene and Canadian corvettes HMCS Snowberry and HMCS Calgary.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of the Azores - 43.50N, 19.39W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Foley and British sloop HMS Crane.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Liberator aircraft.
Location: East of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 58.38N, 31.56W.

Location: North of Madeira, Portugal - 39.03N, 16.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Halifax and a US Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British MTB 81.
Location: Straits of Messina - 38.16N, 15.39E.

Cause: Scuttled after being damaged by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: North Atlantic west of Leixoes - 41.12N, 09.31W.

Location: North-east of Trinidad - 11.35N, 54.05W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer USS Wainwright and British escort destroyer HMS Calpe.
Location: Western Mediterranean north of Constantine - 37.38N, 05.58E.

Cause: Sunk by aircraft from US escort carrier USS Card.

Location: Mid-Atlantic near the Amazon estuary, Brazil - 03.22N, 48.38W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Ventura aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic near Pernambuco - 08.36S, 34.34W.

Cause: Scuttled after being badly damaged by depth charges from US aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic - 04.30S, 21.20W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Sunderland aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Sunderland aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer USS George E. Badger.
Location: Mid-Atlantic south of the Azores - 35.32N, 28.36W.

Location: North-west of Cape Finisterre - 46.42N, 11.03W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US aircraft.
Location: Caribbean Sea south-east of Curaquo - 12.38N, 64.15W.

Cause: Ran aground under British aerial attack, and wreck destroyed by gunfire from the British HMS Hyacinth and Australian minesweeper HMAS Wollongong.
Location: Mediterranean near Melilla - 35.38N, 03.27W.

Cause: Sunk by US aircraft.
Location: Near Trondheim - 63.27N, 10.23E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Stork and corvette HMS Stonecrop.
Location: North Atlantic east of the Azores - 40.13N, 19.24W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from Soviet submarine S-101.
Location: Arctic Ocean (Kara Sea) north-east of Mys Zhelaniya - 76.49N, 69.42E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Liberator aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer USS Schenck.

Cause: Missing, possibly mined.
Location: North of the Shetland Islands, position unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bazely, HMS Blackwood and HMS Drury.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Catalina aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic in the Amazon Estuary - 03.56N, 48.46W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft from US escort carrier USS Card.

Cause: Sank after a collision with the target ship Bolkoburg.
Location: Gulf of Danzig, position unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft and a Canadian Hampden aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Fortress aircraft.
Location: East of the Azores - 40.31N, 20.17W.

Location: Baltic Sea north-east of Bornholm - 55.21N, 15.24E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British anti-submarine trawler HMS Imperialist and British destroyer HMS Douglas.
Location: Mid-Atlantic near Tangier - 35.54N, 05.52W.

Location: Caribbean Sea east of Jamaica - 15.58N, 73.44W.

Cause: Stricken when unable to put to sea and surrendered to France.
Location: Near La Pallice, France - 46.10N, 01.14W.

Cause: Sank as a result of a collision with U-745.
Location: Gulf of Danzig - 54.30N, 19.15E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Byard.
Location: North Atlantic east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 59.57N, 31.06W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Starling and HMS Wild Goose.
Location: Western North Atlantic - 43.42N, 42.08W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from aircraft of US escort aircraft carrier USS Card.
Location: Sargasso Sea - 28.19N, 37.58W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Liberator and Mitchell aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic south-west of Ascension Island - 10.09S, 18.00W.

Location: South Atlantic West of the Congo estuary - 06.30S, 05.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and homing torpedoes from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: Mid-Atlantic west of Madeira, Portugal - 32.54N, 37.01W.

Location: North-west of Kap St.Vincent - 37.40N, 15.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British, American and Czech Wellington and Liberator aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay near Cape Ortegal, Spain.

Cause: Sunk after a collision with U-988.
Location: Baltic Sea north of Loba - 54.56N, 17.14E.

Location: Atlantic, possibly off Cape Cod.

Ermland
Type: Trobschiff (Supply Ship / Tanker)
Class: Dithmarschen
Launched: 1939
Drawing Credit: German Naval History
Cause: Attacked and sunk by Allied aircraft.
Location: Nantes, France.
Crew: 94 - 208
2 x 3.7cm Flak
8 x MGs
Capacity: 7,933 t x Fuel / 972 t x Ammunition / 790 t x General Supplies / 100 t x Repair Parts

Jaguar
Photo Credit: Die-Marine.de
Fate: Jaguar sunk on 6/15/1944 at Le Havre, France, following an attack by British Lancaster bombers.

Falke
Class: 1923 "Raubvogel"
Kondor
Photo Credit: German Naval History
Fate: Falke was sunk on 6/15/1944 by British Lancaster bombers in Le Havre after several attacks on the allied landing force during the Normandy invasion.

Greif
Greif, followed by Mowe.
Photo Credit: German Naval History
Fate: Greif was torpedoed and sunk by British Albacore torpedo bombers on 5/23/1944 at 49° 21' N, 0° 19' W.

Mowe
Fate: Möwe was sunk on 6/15/1944 by British Lancaster bombers in Le Havre after several attacks on the allied landing force during the Normandy invasion.

Type: Flottentorpedoboot (Fleet Torpedo Boat)
Fate: T22 sank after hitting a German mine in Narwa Bay. T31 sank on 6/20/1944 from torpedo hits from the Soviet torpedo boat TKA-37 at 60° 26' N, 28° 17' E.
OA Length x Beam: 102.5m x 10m
Wikipedia: Elbing Class Torpedo Boat

Fate: Sank in the Gulf of Biscay where it was badly damaged on 4/29/1944 by Canadian destroyer Haida and beached at Ile de Batz, France. Torpedoed by British MTB 673 on 5/4/1944, capsized and sunk.

Class: 1936A (Mob)
Photo Credit: PolishNavy.pl
Fate: Heavily damaged by gunfire from HMCS Haida & Huraon near Ile de Batz, France. Subsequently beached and later destroyed by air attack.
Wreck of the Z32 on the Ile de Batz beach.

Type: IIA
Cause: Sank after a collision with the German steam trawler Helmi Söhle.
Location: West of Pillau - 54.48N, 19.55E.

Cause: Sank in a diving accident.
Location: West of Pillau - 54.52N, 19.30E.

Cause: Sunk in an operational accident.
Location: Neustadt U-boat pier - 54.07N, 10.50E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges, ramming and gunfire from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Block Island and by the destroyer escort USS Buckley.
Location: West of the Cape Verde Islands - 17.17N, 32.29W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and rockets from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal.
Location: North-west of Madeira, Portugal - 33.24N, 18.59W.

Cause: Sunk by US aircraft on 1/9/1944. Raised on 4/22/1944, than broken up.
Location: Pola - 44.52N, 13.51E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Affleck, HMS Gore and HMS Gould.
Location: Northern Atlantic - 49.45N, 26.20W.

Cause: Taken out of service and scuttled.
Location: Lorient, France.

Location: South Atlantic west of Ascension Island - 10.35S, 23.15W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from British sloop HMS Starling.
Location: South-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland - 56.12N, 39.52W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Laforey and HMS Tumult and escort destroyers HMS Hambledon and HMS Blencathra.
Location: Mediterranean north of Palermo - 38.48N, 14.10E.

Location: North-east of the Azores - 44.15N, 20.38W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Kite, HMS Magpie and HMS Starling.

Location: North Sea west of Norway.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 63.36N, 01.42E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigate HMCS Waskesiu and British frigate HMS Nene.

Cause: Sunk during a deep dive trials.
Location: Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle, France - 46.06N, 01.36W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Woodpecker and HMS Starling.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Bickerton.
Location: The Channel south-east of Torquay - 50.01N, 02.59W.

Location: West of Limerick - 53.15N, 15.52W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Fencer.
Location: Arctic Ocean south-west of Bear Island, Norway - 73.24N, 15.32E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Wellington aircraft.
Location: South-west of the Faeroes - 60.45N, 12.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and rockets by Swordfish and Avenger aircraft of British escort carriers HMS Activity and HMS Tracker.
Location: Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway - 73.44N, 27.12E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Milne.
Location: Barents Sea south-west of Bear Island, Norway - 73.32N, 00.28E.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Sahib.
Location: Mediterranean west of Bonifacio - 41.27N, 07.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Swale.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of the Azores - 45.05N, 35.11W.

Cause: Lost probably to one of its own torpedoes.
Location: (approximate) 49N, 18W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigates HMCS Matane and HMCS Swansea.
Location: North Atlantic south west of Iceland - 52.09N, 19.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Whitehall and HMS Meteor.
Location: Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway - 73.41N, 24.30E.

Type: VIIC/41
Location: North-east of the Shetlands - 62.03N, 01.45E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Catalina aircraft.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British minesweeping trawler HMS Mull.
Location: Mediterranean south of Sardinia - 38.07N, 09.41E.

Location: Arctic Sea. Reported for the last time on 4/1/1944 from approximate position 73.03N, 13.10E

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Gould, HMS Affleck, HMS Gore and HMS Garlies.
Location: North Atlantic north of the Azores - 45.46N, 23.16W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Keppel.
Location: Norwegian Sea south-west of Bear Island - 72.28N, 13.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Halifax aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay - 45.33N, 05.55W.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from a Swordfish aircraft of British escort carrier HMS Chaser.
Location: Arctic Ocean north-west of Hammerfest - 72.10N, 14.44E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Pride and USS Joseph E. Campbell, French destroyer escort Sénégalais and British escort destroyer HMS Blankney.
Location: Mediterranean north of Constantine - 37.49N, 05.39E.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of Brest, France - 48.10N, 05.31W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wanderer and frigate HMS Glenarm.

Cause: Sunk by US aircraft.
Location: Near Toulon, France - 43.07N, 05.55E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Spey.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Affleck, destroyer HMS Vanoc and depth charges from US Catalina aircraft.
Location: Straits of Gibraltar - 35.55N, 05.41W.

Cause: Sunk by US aircraft.
Location: Near Toulon, France - 43.07N, 05.55W.

Location: North Atlantic west of Gibraltar - 36.00N, 09.53W.

Location: Mediterranean near Toulon, France - 43.07N, 05.55E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Norwegian Catalina aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 63.06N, 02.05E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Wild Goose and HMS Woodpecker.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: West of Nantes, France - 46.47N, 10.42W.

Type: VIIC U-Flak
Converted: April-May 1943
Location: English Channel - (approx) 48.27N, 05.47W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigate HMCS Swansea and British sloop HMS Pelican.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyers HMS Blankney, HMS Blencathra, HMS Brecon and HMS Exmoor and US destroyer USS Madison.
Location: Western Mediterranean south of Ostia - 41.11N, 12.27E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Termagant and HMS Tenacious and escort destroyer HMS Liddesdale.
Location: Ionian Sea north-east of Cape Spartivento - 38.13N, 16.30E.

Location: Mediterranean, probably in or around the Ligurian Sea.

Cause: Sunk by gunfire and rockets from British destroyer HMS Onslaught and aircraft from escort carrier HMS Chaser.
Location: Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway - 73.05N, 26.40E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Starling, HMS Wren and HMS Wild Goose.
Location: North Atlantic west south-west of Ireland - 49.29N, 21.22W.

Cause: Damaged on 5/24/1944 by depth charges from British Catalina aircraft, and scuttled by torpedoes from U-990.
Location: North-west of Trondheim, Norway - 65.08N, 04.53E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Catalina aircraft.
Location: West of Trondheim, Norway - 63.59N, 01.37E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian Canso and British Liberator aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 63.27N, 00.50W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Frost, USS Huse, USS Barber and USS Snowden.
Location: West of Cape Verde - 17.54N, 38.05W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft assigned to US escort carrier USS Croatan, and depth charges from destroyer escorts USS Frost, USS Huse and USS Inch.
Location: North-west of the Azores - 42.47N, 40.08W.

Cause: Captured at sea.
Location: West of Africa - 21°30′N 19°20′W.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal and depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Pope, USS Pillsbury, USS Chatelain and USS Flaherty.
Location: Mid-Atlantic north of Madeira, Portugal - 34.35N, 19.18W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and rockets from Avenger aircraft of US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of the Azores - 40.30N, 37.20W

Cause: Scuttled after crippling damage from depth charges dropped by a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: West of the Hebrides - 58.17N, 13.22W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Eugene E. Elmore and USS Ahrens.
Location: Mid-Atlantic south-west of Madeira, Portugal - 31.13N, 23.03W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and gunfire from US destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson.
Location: North Atlantic east of New York - 40.09N, 69.44W.

Location: West of Ireland - 52.41N, 14.27W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigate HMCS Prince Rupert, US destroyer USS Hobson and destroyer escort USS Haverfield, and by depth charges from a British Wellington and Fortress aircraft and aircraft from US escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: North Atlantic north of the Azores - 46.18N, 27.34W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Starling, HMS Wild Goose and HMS Magpie.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US Liberator aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic near Natal - 04.05S, 33.23W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bazely and HMS Blackwood.
Location: North Atlantic north of Ponta Delgada - 40.31N, 22.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft.
Location: Arctic Ocean north-west of Narvik, Norway - 70.26N, 12.40E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escort USS Bronstein.

Cause: Scuttled after fatal damage from depth charges from US destroyers USS Nields, USS Gleaves, USS Ellyson, USS Macomb, USS Hambleton, USS Rodman and USS Emmons, and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean east of Cartagena - 36.46N, 00.52E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Sunderland aircraft.
Location: West of Ireland - 52.35N, 20.19W.

Location: English Channel west of Brest - 48.34N, 05.23W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Violet.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Vindex, and by depth charges from British sloops HMS Starling and HMS Wild Goose.

Cause: Sunk after being rammed by British minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter.
Location: Barents Sea - 73.00N, 21.00E.

Cause: Sunk by aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Fencer.
Location: Arctic Ocean north-west of Narvik - 70.32N, 04.37E.

Location: West of Alesund - 62.27N, 03.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Thomas, USS Bostwick and USS Bronstein.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Keppel.
Location: Arctic north-west of Narvik, Norway - 69.27N, 04.53E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Canso aircraft.
Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 62.55N, 02.59W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Bulldog.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Ireland - 55.33N, 11.02E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British patrol vessel HMS Kilmarnock and British anti-submarine trawler HMS Blackfly and US Catalina aircraft.
Location: Mid-Atlantic near Tangier - 35.54N, 05.45W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Wild Goose and HMS Starling.

Cause: Sank after a collision with the steamship Erna.
Location: Baltic Sea near Gotenhafen - 54.31N, 18.33E.

Location: English Channel.

Cause: Sunk after being torpedoed by British destroyer HMS Icarus, then after unsuccessful attempts at towing the boat to port, by depth charges from HMS Icarus, Canadian frigate HMCS St. Catharines, Canadian corvettes HMCS Fennel and HMCS Chilliwack, and Canadian destroyers HMCS Chaudiere and HMCS Gatineau, and British corvette HMS Kenilworth Castle.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Bayntun and Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose.

Cause: Scuttled in view of approaching British destroyers HMS Anthony and HMS Wishart.
Location: Mid-Atlantic near Tangier - 35.55N, 05.45W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Woodpecker and HMS Wild Goose.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Vindex and British frigates HMS Bickerton, HMS Bligh and HMS Aylmer.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Fame, HMS Inconstant and HMS Havelock.
Location: The English Channel south-west of Guernsey - 49.03N, 03.13W.

Cause: Sunk by homing torpedoes from Avenger aircraft of US escort carrier USS Block Island and depth charges and gunfire from US destroyer USS Corry and US destroyer escort USS Bronstein.
Location: Mid-Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands - 16.42N, 30.28W.

Cause: Sunk by a mine.
Location: Baltic Sea near Swinemünde - 53.55N, 14.17E.

Laid Down: 10/2/1941 (Stettin)
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British Liberator and Mosquito aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay, near Brest - 48.31N, 05.11W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Forester, the Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent, the Canadian corvette HMCS Owen Sound and the Canadian frigate HMCS Swansea.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Wellington aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay north of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 46.04N, 09.20W.

Cause: Missing, presumed sunk.
Date: March / April 1944

Cause: Scuttled after running aground during a British air attack by Wellington aircraft.
Location: Arabian Sea off the east coast of Somalia - 09.32N, 50.59E

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer USS Champlin and US destroyer escort USS Huse.
Location: North Atlantic east of New York - 40.18N, 62.22W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and rockets from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Solomons.
Location: South Atlantic south of St. Helena - 25.27S, 05.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escort USS Farquhar.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Newfoundland - 43.18N, 47.44W.

Location: Bay of Biscay north of Cape Ortegal, Spain - 45.13N, 08.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft of the escort carrier HMS Fencer.
Location: South-east of Jan Mayen - 69.20N, 00.20W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyers USS Niblack and USS Ludlow and Wellington and Ventura aircraft.
Location: North-west of Algiers - 37.20N, 01.35E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Starling.
Location: East of Iceland - 64.31N, 03.19W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Crane and HMS Cygnet.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Cape Finisterre - 45.43N, 19.57W.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of Bordeaux - 45.15N, 04.10W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Eskimo, Canadian Destroyer HMCS Haida and depth charges from a Czech Liberator aircraft.
Location: English Channel north of Brest - 49.01N, 05.35W.

Date: (approx) 1/1944

Cause: Sunk by rockets fired from a Swordfish aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Chaser.
Location: North-west of Narvik - 70.40N, 05.48E.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from Norwegian submarine HNoMS Ula.
Location: North Sea by Stavanger, Norway - 59.08N, 05.23E.

Cause: Sunk by gunfire from British Mosquito aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay near St. Nazaire - 46.48N, 02.43W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Canadian Catalina aircraft.
Location: North Sea north-west of Bergen - 63.07N, 00.26E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Swift and Canadian submarine-chaser HMCS PC-619.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Satyr.
Location: North Sea west of Narvik - 68.01N, 05.08W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Essington, HMS Duckworth, HMS Domett and HMS Cooke, and a Liberator aircraft.
Location: English Channel west of Guernsey - 49.37N, 03.41W.

Location: North Sea west of Bodö - 65.05N, 07.28W.

Type: VIIC/41
Cause: Damaged by depth charges from a Norwegian Mosquito aircraft, and taken out of duty on 6/27/1944. Scrapped in 1944.
Location: Bergen (Norway).

Cause: Sunk after a collision with U-286.
Location: Baltic sea east of Rügen - 54.21N, 13.58E.

Cause: Sunk after collision with U-1014.
Location: Baltic Sea west of Pillau - 54.25N, 19.50E.

Type: VIIF
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Block Island.
Location: South-west of the Cape Verde Islands - 13.10N, 33.44W.

Cause: Scuttled following heavy bomb damage from a USAAF air raid on 3/11/1945.
Location: Hamburg.

Location: North-west of Bergen - 63.00N, 00.50W.

Niedersachsen
Type: Minenleger (Minelayer)
Class: ex-French "Guyane"
Laid Down: 1934 (Denmark)
Launched: 1934
No photos available.
Cause: Torpedoed and sunk by British submarine HMS Upstart.
Location: Near Toulon, France – 43 02' N, 06 01' E.
Crew: Unknown

Tirpitz
Type: Schlachtschiff (Battleship)
Class: Bismarck
Photo Credit: KBismarck.com
Fate: Damaged by British aircraft and subsequently capsized near Tromso, Norway.
Reconnaissance photo taken on 3/22/1945 showing the capsized hull of the Bismarck after the successful attack by British aircraft on 11/12/1944.
Photo Credit: Australian War Memorial
Displacement: 42,900 t (standard); 52,600 t (full load)
Crew: 2,608
German Naval History: Tirpitz
Axis History: Tirpitz
KBismarck.com

Schleswig-Holstein
Type: Linienschiffe (AG)
Class: Deutschland
Schleswig-Holstein firing at Polish forces in 1939 at Gdynia.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Fate: Schleswig-Holstein was damaged by RAF air attack, caught fire, and sank on 12/19/1944 at Gdynia.

Class: 1936A ("Narvik")
Z23
Fate: Heavy damaged by bomb hit during Allied air attack on 8/12/1944 at La Pallice, France. Decommissioned on 8/21/1944.

Fate: Sunk by British aircraft near Le Verdon, France.

Class: 1936B
Photo Credit: No photos available
Fate: Sank after striking a mine in a "friendly" minefield in the Baltic Sea.

Class: 1936A (Mob)
Laid Down: 1940 (Bremen)
Photo Credit: No photo available.
Fate: Badly damaged in a collision with Z32 on 1/30/1944. Towed to Bordeaux, France, but never repaired. Decommissioned on 8/24/1944.

Kondor
Photo Credit: Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk
Fate: Kondor was damaged by a mine in the area between Cherbourg and Le Havre on 5/24/1944. Towed to Le Havre and decommissioned on 6/28/1944. While docked, the ship was thrown on its side after an air attack on 7/31/1944.

Laid Down: 11/24/1937 (Elbing)
Commissioned: 1941
Fate: T10 was attacked and destroyed by British aircraft on 12/18/1944 while undergoing repairs at Gotenhafen (Gdynia).
Displacement: 845 t (standard) / 1,090 t (full load)

Fate: T18 was sunk by Russian aircraft on 9/17/1944 while searching for an Estonian refugee ship in the eastern Baltic Sea at 59° 22' N, 24° 03' E.

Launched: 1941
T22
Photo Credit: Deutschegriegsmarine.de
Fate: T22 sank after hitting a German mine in Narwa Bay.

Fate: T22 sank after hitting a German mine in Narwa Bay.

Fate: T30 sank after hitting a German mine in Narwa Bay.

Fate: T34 sank after hitting a mine hit laid by the Soviet submarine L3 on 11/24/1944 near Cape Arkona in the Baltic Sea.

Cause: Stricken and scrapped.
Date: 8/1/1944 (Stricken) / 1945 (Scrapped)
Location: Gotenhafen (Gdynia, Poland).

Cause: Sunk by bombs from Soviet aircraft.
Location: Konstanza, Black Sea - 44.12N, 28.41E.

Cause: Stricken and broken up.
Location: Danzig.

Cause: Scuttled.
Location: Konstanza, Black Sea - 44.12N, 28.41E.

Cause: Scuttled.
Location: Off the coast of Turkey, Black Sea - 41.34N, 31.50E.

Cause: Scuttled.
Location: Off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea - 41.10N, 30.47E.

Location: Off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea - 41.11N, 30.00E.

Location: Konstanza, Black Sea - 44.12N, 28.41E.

Cause: Sunk in a diving accident.

Cause: Damaged on 10/4/1944 by RAF attack, and placed out of duty on 10/12/1944. Scrapped in 1944/45.
Location: Bergen, Norway.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of La Rochelle - 46.46N, 03.49W.

Cause: Taken out of service (7/4/1944) and scuttled (8/18/1944)
Location: Lorient, France.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Inch and USS Frost.
Location: West of Madeira, Portugal – (approx) 34.00N, 19.30W.

Cause: Sunk by a torpedo from Dutch submarine HrMs Zwaardvisch.
Location: Java Sea - 06.20S, 111.28E.

Cause: Scuttled as she was not seaworthy in time to escape the Allied advance.
Location: Bordeaux, France.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of Bordeaux, France – (approx) 44.00N, 02.00W.

Cause: Scuttled when unable to escape the Allied advance.
Location: Bordeaux, France.

Cause: Missing possibly because of a diving accident.
Location: Near the Sunda Straits south of Java (exact position unknown).

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Findhorn and Indian sloop HMIS Godavari.
Location: Near the Seychelles - 03.35S, 52.49E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Curzon and HMS Ekins.
Location: English Channel south of Brighton - 50.27N, 00.13W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Cooke.
Location: English Channel south-east of Eddystone - 49.58N, 03.30W.

Cause: Stricken and subsequently broken up in 1944/1945.
Location: Bergen, Norway.

Cause: Ran aground and scuttled during the Allied invasion of southern France.
Location: Mediterranean in the Toulon roadsteads, France - 43.07N, 06.00E.

Cause: Sunk by ramming, depth charges and gunfire from US destroyer escorts USS Baker and USS Thomas.
Location: south-east of Halifax - 42.16N, 59.49W.

Cause: Damaged by British air attack on 7/24/1944 and stricken 8/5/1944.
Location: Deutsche Werke, Kiel.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of Nantes, France - 47.06N, 06.40W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigates HMCS St. John and HMCS Swansea.
Location: The Channel near Lands End - 49.54N, 05.49W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Russian submarine chaser MO-103.
Location: Baltic Sea in the Gulf of Finland - 60.28N, 28.25E.

Type: VIIC U-Flak
Converted: May 1943
Cause: Stricken due to unknown causes.
Location: Bergen, Norway.

Location: Bay of Biscay west of La Rochelle - 46.19N, 02.56W.

Cause: Stricken and subsequently used as a floating electricity generating plant.
Location: Neustadt in Holstein, Germany.

Location: North Atlantic, 16 miles west of Yesnaby in the Orkney Islands.

Location: North Sea south-west of the Lindesnes, Norway - 57.40N, 05.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian corvette HMCS Calgary.
Location: English Channel south of Weymouth - 50.25N, 02.26W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Starling and frigate HMS Loch Killin.
Location: North Atlantic west of the Scilly Isles - 49.39N, 07.28W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft from escort carrier HMS Vindex.
Location: Barents Sea north-west of Bear Island - 74.54N, 15.26E.

Location: West of Narvik, Norway - 68.36N, 08.33E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloops HMS Mermaid and HMS Peacock, frigate HMS Loch Dunvegan and destroyer HMS Keppel.
Location: Barents Sea north-east of North Cape - 72.49N, 30.41E.

Location: West of Narvik, Norway - 68.35N, 06.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Soviet minesweeper T-116.
Location: Kara Sea near Krakovka - 75.51N, 89.27E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Swordfish aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Campania.
Location: Arctic Ocean east of Jan Mayen - 70.43N, 08.07E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Starling.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Bamborough Castle.
Location: Barents Sea near Murmansk, Russia - 69.41N, 33.12E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Wanderer and frigate HMS Tavy.
Location: Baie de la Seine, English Channel - 49.52N, 00.48W.

Cause: Sunk by rockets and depth charges from a Swordfish aircraft from British escort carrier HMS Vindex and destroyers HMS Keppel and HMS Whitehall and sloops HMS Mermaid and HMS Peacock.
Location: Norwegian Sea south-east of Jan Mayen island, Norway - 69.47N, 04.10E.

Cause: Sunk - probably by mine.
Location: Off Cornwall, England.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyers HMS Troubridge and HMS Terpsichore and Polish destroyer Garland.
Location: Mediterranean south of Milos - 36.27N, 24.33E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British escort destroyer HMS Wensleydale and destroyers HMS Forester and HMS Vidette.
Location: English Channel south of Brighton - 50.21N, 00.01W.

Location: Near Brest, France, west of the torpedo-net barrier - 48.24N, 04.30W.

Cause: Sunk 3/30/1943 in the Baltic Sea near Bornholm in position 54.55N, 14.45E by a mine laid by the Soviet submarine L-3. Raised on 4/8/1943, and used for training from 10/4/1943. Sank (again) after a collision with the German minesweeper M 203.
Location: Baltic Sea north-west of Pillau - 54.58N, 19.33E.

Cause: Damaged by British aircraft on 10/4/1944 and stricken on 10/5/1944.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Louis.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire, France - 47.21N, 05.50W.

Cause: Damaged on 7/5/1944 by bombs from US B-24 aircraft at Toulon, France. Subsequently scuttled on 8/9/1944 during the Allied invasion of southern France.
Location: Toulon, France - 43.05N, 05.56E.

Cause: Bombed in dry dock by US B-24 Liberator aircraft.
Location: Toulon, France - 43.07N, 05.55E.

Location: Gulf of Finland.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Ascension.
Location: North Atlantic west of the Shetlands - 60.18N, 04.52W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Portchester Castle and frigate HMS Helmsdale.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of Ireland - 55.45N, 11.41W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from US submarine USS Flounder.
Location: Java Sea east of Surabaya - 07.13S, 115.17E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges & a homing torpedo from Avenger aircraft of US escort carrier USS Wake Island.
Location: Mid-Atlantic south-west of Tenerife - 25.34N, 21.36W.

Cause: Damaged by mines in the Gironde near Pauillac on 8/13/1944, and subsequently taken out of service / scuttled at Stettin.
Location: Stettin.

Cause: Badly damaged on 9/19/1944 by US aircraft, and scuttled on 9/24/1944 by three depth charges.
Location: Mediterranean near Skaramanga - 37.57N, 23.40E.

Location: Near Toulon - 43.07N, 05.55E.

Cause: Scuttled after being damaged by US aircraft.
Location: Mediterranean in Skaramanga Bay, near Salamis - 37.59N, 23.34E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Wren and by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle - 46.30N, 03.08W.

Type: VIIC U-Flak
Converted: 7/7/1943
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Kootenay and HMCS Chaudiere.
Location: Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle - 45.52N, 02.36W.

Cause: Sunk by US bombs.
Location: Toulon, France - 43.07N, 05.55E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Duckworth and HMS Essington, and by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire - 47.22N, 04.39W.

Location: North Atlantic or the Arctic Ocean, exact position unknown.

Location: Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle - 46.00N, 01.30W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Stayner and escort destroyer HMS Wensleydale.
Location: English Channel south of Brighton - 50.23N, 00.06E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Balfour.
Location: English Channel north of Guernsey - 50.03N, 02.30W.

Cause: Sank after running aground near Smaaskjär following a collision with U-382.
Location: North Sea, north of Stavanger, Norway - 59.20N, 05.53E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Kootenay and British corvette HMS Statice.
Location: English Channel south-west of Brighton - 50.32N, 00.23W.

Location: Arctic east of Iceland, exact position unknown.

Cause: Sunk during a British air raid.
Location: Oslo Fjord near Horten, Norway - 59.24N, 10.28E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Loch Killin.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire - 47.19N, 04.16W.

Cause: Sank after a collision with MRS 25.
Location: Vestfjorden - 68.09N, 15.39E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British corvette HMS Orchis.
Location: English Channel north-west of Le Havre - 50.20.84N, 00.34.68W.

Location: Arctic west of Narvik, Norway - 68.24N, 09.51E.

Cause: Unknown.
Date: September or October 1944
Location: North of Ireland - 55.38N, 07.26W.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Venturer.
Location: The Arctic in the Andfjord near Harstad, Norway - 69.17N, 16.28E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Nyasaland.
Location: North Atlantic south of Cork - 51.16N, 08.05W.

Cause: Sunk by British aircraft.
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Germany - 53.51N, 08.10E.

Location: Baltic Sea north of Swinemünde - 54.44N, 14.16E.

Location: Area west of Bergen, Norway.

Location: (approx) Trondheim, Norway.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US Liberator aircraft.
Location: South Atlantic east-south-east of Recife - 10.45S, 25.30W.

Location: North-west of Bergen, Norway - 62.15N, 01.50E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British B-17 Fortress aircraft
Location: North-west of the Azores - 43.18N, 36.28W

Cause: Badly damaged on 7/29/1944 by US bombs and taken out of service on 8/10/1944.
Location: Bremen.

Cause: Sunk by Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas.
Location: North Atlantic north-west of the Azores - 46.25N, 36.38W.

Laid Down: 10/15/1941 (Rostock)
Location: Arctic Ocean north-west of Narvik.

Laid Down: 6/15/1942 (Rostock)
Location: North Atlantic or Arctic Sea north of Britain.

Location: Toulon, France.

Cause: Taken out of service as a result of a collision with a German steamer.
Location: Trondheim., Norway.

Cause: Destroyed by bombs from US B-24 aircraft.
Location: Toulon, France.

Cause: Sunk by an air-laid mine and depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay at La Rochelle - 45.41N, 01.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Kootenay and HMCS Chaudiere.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Brest - 48.16N, 05.33W.

Cause: Decommissioned following heavy damage from a German mine on 10/23/1944.
Location: Kristiansand.

Cause: Destroyed during RAF air strike.

Cause: Heavily damaged on 8/15/1944 in the Baltic Sea by a mine. Taken out of duty on 9/29/1944 at Köningsberg, and subsequently scrapped.
Date: Scrapped 1944/1945
Location: Köningsberg.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the Canadian frigate HMCS Annan.
Location: South-east of Faeroes - 60.59N, 04.49W.

Location: North Sea since leaving Horten.

Cause: Stricken after a collision with a hospital ship near Hela "Tonne 1".
Location: Kiel.

Type: VIIF
Cause: Grounded after sustaining damage from rockets and depth charges from aircraft from British carrier HMS Implacable, British Handley Page Halifax aircraft, and from Czechoslovakian Liberator aircraft.
Location: North Sea south of Bronnoysund - 65.24N, 11.59.5E.

Type: VIIF
Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escort USS Fessenden.
Location: Central Atlantic.

Cause: Stricken and broken up after being damaged by British bombs.
Location: Kiel.

Cause: Scuttled after hitting Wolf Rock.
Location: The Channel near the Scilly Isles - 49.57N, 05.47W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Sunderland aircraft

Cause: Sunk by depth charges and rockets from aircraft of US escort carrier USS Bogue.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Newfoundland - 42.20N, 51.39W.

Type: XXIII "Electroboot"
Cause: Sank after hitting a mine.
Location: West of Möltenort - 54.23N, 10.11E.

Type: XXIII "Electroboot"
Cause: Sank due to unknown accident.
Location: Near Hela - 54.00N, 18.00E.

Type: XXIII "Electroboot"
Cause: Sank as a result of hitting a mine.
Location: Baltic Sea north of Swinemünde - 54.01N, 14.15E.

Drache
Type: Minenleger (Minelayer)
Class: ex-Yugoslav "Zmaj"
Laid Down: 1929 (Hamburg)
Commissioned: 1941
No photos available.
Cause: Attacked by Allied aircraft and subsequently exploded.
Location: Samos, Greece.
Max Speed: Unknown

Type: 1935
Laid Down: Unknown (Lubeck)
Cause: Destroyed in shipyard.
Location: Le Havre, France.

Type: 1940
Laid Down: Unknown (Bremen)
Cause: Sunk by unknown means.
Location: Bordeaux, France.

Laid Down: Unknown (Elbing)
Cause: Destroyed.

1945: January - May

Gneisenau
Class: Gneisenau
Photo taken from heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper on 6/7/1940 during Operation JUNO. Gneisenau is in the center while Scharnhorst is behind her port beam.
Photo Credit: Scharnhorst & Gneisenau Class site
Fate: Heavily damaged by air attacks while under repair at Kiel on 2/26-27/1942. Moved to Gdynia where she was decommissioned in order to begin repairs/reconstruction. Withdrawn from service in July 1943. Sunk as block ship at Gdynia, Poland.
View of the wreck of the Gneisenau as a block ship in Gdynia (Gotenhafen).
OA Length X Beam: 234.9m X 30m

Admiral Scheer
Type: Panzerschiffe (CB)
Class: Deutschland
Admiral Scheer after 1940.
Fate: Sunk by RAF bombers in Kiel on 4/9/1945. Subsequently covered with rubble with the dock was filled in.
Aerial photo of Kiel (c. 4/1945), showing the capsized Admiral Scheer in the Inner Dockyard basin.
Photo Credit: Australian War Memorial
Arsenal of Dictatorship

Graf Zeppelin
Type: Flugzeugtrager (CV)
Class: Graf Zeppelin
Commissioned: N/A – Work was stopped at 95% completion.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Fate: Scuttled by her crew in Stettin on 4/25/1945. Subsequently raised by the USSR, and used as a target for Soviet aircraft. Sunk approximately 55km North of Wladyslawowo, Poland, on 8/16/1947.
Graf Zeppelin in 1947 (location unknown – Poland?) following her salvage by the USSR
Photo Credit: Sedina.pl
Displacement: 33,550 t (standard)
OA Length x Beam: 262.5m X 27m
Crew: 1720 x Ship’s Crew / 306 x Flight Personnel
28 x 2cm MG L/65
10 x Me 109T aircraft
13 x Ju 87C aircraft
20 x Fi 167 aircraft

Koln
Type: Leichte Kreuzer (CL)
Class: "K"
Koln underway during the late 1930s. A Heinkel He 60 aircraft is flying overhead.
Fate: Sunk by British aircraft at Wilhelmshaven on 3/3/1945.

Fate: Sunk by British aircraft in the Baltic Sea.

Fate: T36 was damaged by a mine hit on 5/4/1945 near Swinemunde. She was subsequently attacked and sunk by Soviet aircraft on 5/5/1945.

Laid Down: 11/14/1936 (Elbing)
Fate: T1 was sunk by US aircraft while docked in Kiel shipyard on 4/9/1945.

Laid Down: 11/14/1936 (Elbing)
T3 escorting the Prinz Eugen in the English Channel.
Photo Credit: PrinzEugen.com
Fate: T3 was sunk by a mine on 3/14/1945 near Hela at 54°39'N, 18°47'E.

Fate: T5 sunk near Hela after a mine hit on 3/14/1945 at 54°39'N, 18°47'E.

Fate: T13 was sunk by British Halifax bombers southeast of the island Laeso on 4/10/1945 while escorting a convoy in the Kattegat.

Fate: T16 was severely damaged by US air attack while escorting a convoy in the Baltic on 4/10/1945. She was decommissioned on 4/13/1945.

Type: IIC
Cause: Sunk by bombs from British aircraft.
Location: Kiel - 54.19N, 10.10E.

Type: IIC
Cause: Stricken & scuttled.
Date: 4/1945 (Stricken) / Scuttled

Cause: Sunk by artillery fire from the Soviet army.
Location: Electricity supply station at Pillau pier.

Cause: Sunk US air attack.
Location: Wilhelmshaven.

Cause: Taken out of service in March 1944. Moved from Gotenhafen to Hamburg (1/1945) and from Hamburg to Kiel (4/1945). Sunk by bombs.
Location: Kiel

Cause: Sunk by bombs (4/11/1944), taken out of service (7/17/1944), subsequently raised than scuttled at Stettin.
Location: Stettin.

Cause: Sunk by a torpedo from US submarine USS Besugo.
Location: Java Sea - 04.50S, 112.52E.

Cause: Sunk in error by depth charges from German torpedo boat T17.
Location: The Kattegat - 57.44N, 10.39E.

Cause: Sunk by British air attack.
Location: Deutsche Werke, Kiel.

Cause: Sunk by a mine in the mine barrage QZX.
Location: St. Georg-Channel - 52.02,9N, 05.46,8W.

Date: (approx) April 1945
Location: Irish Sea south of the Isle of Man - 53.40N, 04.53,5W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Hayter, USS Otter, USS Varian and USS Hubbard.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from British and Norwegian Mosquito aircraft.
Location: The Kattegat south of Göteborg - 56.37N, 11.51E.

Location: South of Ireland - 51.15N, 09.05W.

Cause: Bombed at Gotenhafen 12/1945 and subsequently stricken at Kiel.

Location: English Channel south of Newhaven - 50.36N, 00.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Grindall and HMS Keats.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Loch Insh, HMS Anguilla and HMS Cotton.
Location: Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia - 69.29N, 33.37E.

Location: The approaches to the Northern Channel – (approx) 55.30N, 07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British minesweepers HMS Recuit and HMS Pincher and the yacht Evadne.
Location: North Atlantic west of Cadiz - 36.29N, 08.20W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Loch Insh.
Location: Barents Sea near Murmansk, Russia - 69.24N, 33.44E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigate HMCS St. John.
Location: North Sea east of the Moray Firth - 58.09N, 02.23W.

Cause: Stricken.
Location: Trondheim, Norway.

Cause: Heavily damaged by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft and subsequently scuttled.
Location: North Sea west of Bergen - 61.32N, 01.53E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a Polish Wellington aircraft.

Location: North Atlantic or on the south-west coast of Britain.

Cause: Sunk by a homing torpedo from an American Liberator aircraft.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of Brest - 48.12N, 05.42W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Labuan, HMS Loch Fada and British sloop HMS Wild Goose.
Location: West part of the Channel - 49.46N, 05.47W.

Cause: Sunk by US aircraft during a daylight bombing raid.
Location: Hamburg - 53.33N, 09.57E.

Cause: Sunk by USAAF aircraft.
Location: Hamburg-Finkenwerder - 53.33N, 09.57E.

Cause: Sank after hitting a mine laid by Soviet submarine L-21.
Location: Baltic Sea near Hela - 54.25N, 18.50E.

Cause: Missing on its return from weather-reporting duties.
Date: (approx) Mid-Late April 1945
Location: North Atlantic

Location: North Sea or in the Arctic, position and cause unknown.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Duckworth.
Location: English Channel near Land's End - 49.56N, 05.22W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British sloop HMS Lark and corvette HMS Alnwick Castle.
Location: Barents Sea near Murmansk, Russia - 69.39N, 35.50E.

Cause: Renamed S 4 after being transferred to Italy in exchange for transport vessels. Reverted to Germany as U-429 after the Italian surrender. Sunk by US aircraft.
Location: Near Wilhelmshaven - 53.31N, 08.10E

Cause: Renamed S 6 after being transferred to Italy in exchange for transport vessels. Reverted to Germany as U-430 after the Italian surrender. Sunk by US aircraft.
Location: Bremen - 53.08N, 08.46E.

Cause: Sunk in minefield.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Tapir.
Location: North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway - 60.44N, 04.39E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Carter and USS Neal A. Scott.

Location: In the Kattegat north-west of Helsingör - 56.39N, 11.48E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Flaherty, USS Neunzer, USS Chatelain, USS Varian, USS Hubbard, USS Janssen, USS Pillsbury and USS Keith.
Location: North-west of the Azores - 43.53N, 40.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US destroyer escorts USS Reuben James and USS Buckley.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of Halifax - 42.19N, 61.45W.

Location: The Kattegat east of Aarhus - 56.10N, 11.04E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bazely, HMS Drury and HMS Bentinck.
Location: North Atlantic west of Ireland - 55.50N, 10.31W.

Cause: Sunk by a USSR.
Location: Gulf of Finland, exact position unknown.

Cause: Destroyed by British bombs.
Location: Howaldtswerke yard in Hamburg.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from USSR anti-submarine vessel MO 124.
Location: Baltic Sea - 59.26N, 24.07E.

Location: English Channel west of Isles of Scilly - 49.52.433N, 06.38.633W.

Cause: Destroyed by US bombs.
Location: Howaldtswerke yard in Hamburg.

Location: North Atlantic, south-west of Ireland or in the English Channel.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from aircraft of British escort carriers HMS Searcher, HMS Trumpeter and HMS Queen.
Location: Arctic near Harstad, Norway - 68.43,717N, 16.34,600E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from South African frigate HMSAS Natal and British destroyer HMS Vivern.
Location: North Sea near the Firth of Forth - 55.57N, 01.57W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Fitzroy, HMS Redmill and HMS Byron.
Location: North Atlantic near the Hebrides - 57.09N, 06.55W.

Cause: Missing, probably lost by mine.
Location: Gulf of Finland, position unknown.

Cause: Destroyed by US aircraft.
Location: Hamburg.

Location: Germaniawerft dockyard 4 in Kiel.

Cause: Stricken after being badly damaged by British aircraft.
Location: Kiel, Germany.

Cause: Scuttled after being damaged by Soviet aircraft.
Location: Köningsberg at the Schichau shipyard - 54.42N, 20.32E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Calder and HMS Bentinck.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from British Mosquito aircraft
Location: In the Kattegat - 57.58N, 11.15E.

Cause: Sunk by rockets from British Mosquito aircraft.
Location: In the Kattegat west of Gothenburg - 57.58N, 11.15E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer escort USS Atherton and the US patrol frigate USS Moberly.
Location: North Atlantic south-east of New London - 41.13N, 71.27W.

Date: April 1945
Location: North Atlantic off the US East Coast.

Cause: Sunk by torpedoes from British submarine HMS Venturer.
Location: North Sea west of Bergen, Norway - 60.46N, 04.35E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Lowe, USS Menges, USS Pride and USS Mosley.
Location: North Atlantic north-east of Boston - 43.18N, 61.08W.

Cause: Sunk by US destroyer escorts USS Howard D. Crow and USS Koiner.
Location: Off New Jersey, USA - 39.33N, 73.02W.

Cause: Sunk by US bombs.
Location: Bremen.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Vanquisher and the British corvette HMS Tintagel Castle.
Location: Bay of Biscay west of St Nazaire, France - 47.35N, 10.33W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from US patrol frigate USS Natchez and US destroyer escorts USS Coffmann, USS Bostwick and USS Thomas.
Location: East of Cape Hatteras, USA - 36.34N, 74.00W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Stanton and USS Frost.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Conn.
Location: North Atlantic in the Minch Canal - 58.34N, 05.46W.

Laid Down: 2/21/1942 (Rostock)
Location: Kiel Bay - 54.31N, 10.18E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from a British Warwick aircraft.
Location: The Channel, south-east of Falmouth - 49.45N, 04.45W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Rupert and HMS Conn.
Location: North of Scotland - 58.19N, 05.31W.

Cause: Destroyed in Hamburg by bombs from RAF-Bomber Command aircraft.
Location: Hamburg.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bayntun, HMS Bratwaite, HMS Loch Eck and HMS Loch Dunvegan.
Location: Northern Sea at the Faeroe Islands - 61.36N, 01.35W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Fitzroy and HMS Byron.
Location: Atlantic south-west of Land's End - 49.19N, 10.23W.

Cause: Scuttled after ramming Canadian frigate HMCS New Glasgow on 3/20/1945.
Location: Northern Channel 8 - 10 miles north of Inistrahull beacon (Malin Hd.) - 55.25N, 06.53W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Loch Scavaig, HMS Nyasaland, HMS Papua and HMS Loch Shin.
Location: Minch Channel (Hebrides) - 55.17N, 06.44W.

Location: North Atlantic north-west of Ireland - 56.04N, 11.06W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Loch Fada.
Location: The Channel south of Penzance - 49.56N, 05.20W.

Location: North Atlantic south of the Bristol Channel – (approx) 50.34N, 05.07W.

Cause: Captured on 4/12/1945 by British frigates HMS Loch Glendhu and HMS Loch More.
Location: Irish Sea south of Isle of Man - 53.39N, 05.03W.

Cause: Sunk by ramming and depth charges from British frigates HMS Aylmer, HMS Calder, HMS Bentinck and HMS Manners.
Location: Irish Sea south of the Isle of Man - 53.39N, 05.23W.

Cause: Sank after an accident during diving trials.
Location: North Sea near Bergen, Norway - 60.24N, 05.13E.

Location: North Atlantic or the English Channel.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Loch Killin.
Location: English Channel west of Land´s End - 50.08.54N, 03.53.24W.

Cause: Sunk by British Mosquito aircraft.
Location: North-west of Göteborg, Sweden - 57.48N, 11.26E.

Location: North-east of the Faeroes - 61.46N, 02.16W.

Cause: Sunk by bombs from an American Catalina aircraft.

Cause: Scuttled after being damaged by British bombs.
Location: Hamburg-Finkenwärder.

Cause: Sunk after being damaged by British bombs.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigate HMS Duckworth.
Location: English Channel south of Lizard Point - 49.58N, 05.25W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Tyler, HMS Keats and HMS Bligh.
Location: St George´s Channel - 52.24N, 05.42W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Watchman.
Location: English Channel - 50.33.17N, 00.56.09W.

Cause: Damaged by bombs at Bremen and stricken at Wesermünde. Later captured there by British forces.
Location: Wesermünde.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Icarus and British corvette HMS Mignonette.
Location: The Channel near the Scilly Isles - 49.57N, 05.42W.

Cause: Sank in a diving accident.
Location: North Sea near Peterhead, Scotland - 57.21N, 01.39W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Duckworth and HMS Rowley.
Location: The English Channel south-east of Isles of Scilly - 49.51.783N, 06.06.750W.

Location: Near Eckernförde - 54.28N, 09.54E.

Cause: Sunk by bombs from US aircraft.

Location: The Skagerak in Oslofjord near Horten - 59.24N, 10.28E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Viceroy.
Location: North Sea north of Newcastle - 55.36N, 01.24W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Amethyst.
Location: North Atlantic south of Waterford - 51.48N, 07.07W.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bayntun and HMS Loch Eck.
Location: North Sea north-west of Bergen, Norway - 61.32N, 01.36E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from British frigates HMS Bayntun, HMS Braithwaite and HMS Loch Eck.
Location: North Sea north-west of Bergen - 61.21N, 02.00E.

Cause: Sunk by depth charges from Canadian frigates HMCS La Hulloise, HMCS Strathadam and HMCS Thetford Mines.
Location: St George´s Channel - 52.19N, 05.23W.

Cause: Attacked and sunk by British Beaufighter aircraft.
Location: East-North-East of Frederica - 55.34N, 09.49E.

Cause: Sank as a result of a collision with U-2336.
Location: North of Heiligendamm - 54.16N, 11.48E.

Cause: Attacked and sunk by rocket fire from British Mosquito aircraft.
Location: In the Kattegat - 57.29N, 11.24E.

Cause: Sank after a collision with an unidentified German U-boat
Location: Near Schleimünde – (approx) 55.00N, 11.00E.

Type: XXI "Electroboot"
Cause: Badly damaged & scuttled following an attack by British Beaufighter aircraft.

Type: XXI "Electroboot"
Cause: Sunk by rockets fired by from British Typhoon aircraft.
Location: Flensburg fjord – (approx) 54.49N, 09.50E

Type: XXI "Electroboot"
Cause: Attacked by aircraft and scuttled.
Location: South-east of the island of Fehmarn, Germany, in the Kattegat at 54.26N, 11.39E

Cause: Attacked and sunk by aircraft.
Location: Near Bremen.

Cause: Attacked and sunk by British Typhoon aircraft.
Location: East of Frederica - 54.26N, 11.32E.

Cause: Attacked and sank by aircraft.

Cause: Sank after hitting a mine.
Location: North of Warnemünde - 54.11N, 12.05E.

Cause: Sank after hitting a mine.
Location: Baltic Sea north-east of Bülk - 54.28N, 10.12E.

Location: In the Skagerak northeast of Skagen Horn, Denmark - 57.52N, 10.49E.

Brummer II
Class: ex-Norwegian "Olave Tryggvason"
Laid Down: 1931 (Norway)
German Minenleger Brummer II.
Photo Credit: "German Warships of World War II", J.C. Taylor.
Cause: Badly damaged by Allied air attack.

Laid Down: Unknown (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by coastal artillery.
Location: Near Lorient, France.

Laid Down: Unknown (Hamburg)
Cause: Sunk by Allied air attack.
Location: Kiel, Germany.

Laid Down: Unknown (Lubeck)
Cause: Sunk by air attack.
Location: Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Laid Down: Unknown (Konigsberg)
Cause: Sunk by Allied air attack.

Laid Down: Unknown (Konigsberg)

HSK-1 Orion
Laid Down: 1930 (Hamburg)
German Auxiliary Cruiser Orion.
Cause: Sunk by aircraft attack while transporting refugees from Swinemunde to Copenhagen.
Location: Near Swinemunde.

Carl Peters
Type: Flottentender (Fleet Tender)
Class: Schnellbootbegleitschieff
Laid Down: 1938 (Rostock)
Location: Off Finland.
1 x 4cm Flak
6 x 3.7cm Flak
8 x 2cm MG

Wilhelm Bauer
Type: Flottentender (Fleet Tender)
Class: U-Boot Begleitschiff
Laid Down: 1937 (Kiel)
U-Boot Begleitschiff Wilhelm Bauer.
Photo Credit:"German Warships of World War II" – J.C. Taylor
Cause: Attacked and sunk by Allied aircraft.
Location: Bremerhaven (?)
Crew: 289 + 423 (U-Boat crew)
1 x 4cm Flak

Franken
Type: Trobschiff (Supply Ship / Tanker)
Class: Dithmarschen
Drawing Credit: German Naval History
Cause: Attacked and sunk by Soviet aircraft.
Location: Near Hela – 54 32' N, 18 57' E.
Crew: 94 - 208
8 x MGs
Capacity: 7,933 t x Fuel / 972 t x Ammunition / 790 t x General Supplies / 100 t x Repair Parts