Unterseeboot 103 (1940)

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Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	U-103
Ordered:	May 24, 1938
Builder:	AG Weser, Bremen, yard 966
Laid down:	September 6, 1939
Launched:	April 12, 1940
Commissioned:	July 5, 1940
Fate:	Sunk April 15, 1945 in the Kiel. 1 dead.
Class and type:	Type IX U-boat
Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 2. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 05 635
Commanders	Viktor Schütze Werner Winter Gustav-Adolf Janssen Heinz Murl Hans-Norbert Schunck
Operations	11
Victories	45 ships sunk for a total of 237.596 gross register tons (GRT) 3 ships damaged for a total of 28.158 GRT

Unterseeboot 103 (usually abbreviated to U-103) was a German Type IXB U-boat built during World War II. U-103 was one of the most successful boat in the entire war, succeeding in sinking over 237,000 tons of allied shipping in 11 patrols, a career lasting more than four years.

U-103 was built at the AG Weser in Bremen during 1939, and was ready for service in 1940. After her warm up, designed to give her an opportunity to train and repair minor faults, she was deployed into the Atlantic Ocean in July, 1940 and saw overwhelming success damaging 3 and sinking 45 ships.

[edit] Fate

In March 1944 U-103 was taken out of service and used as a Schulboot (training boat). In January 1945 she went from Gotenhafen to Hamburg and in April 1945 from Hamburg to Kiel. On April 15 1945 she was sunk by bombs at Kiel with 1 dead and an unknown number of survivors.

[edit] References

• uboat.net webpage for U-103
• ubootwaffe.net webpage for U-103
• uboataces.com webpage with insignia for U-103

See Also: List of U-boats and List of successful U-boats