Unterseeboot 137
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Unterseeboot 137 (U-137) was the designation of two U-boats.
During World War I, U-137 was a Mittel U class submarine of the Kaiserliche Marine. Her construction was ordered on 27 May 1916 and her keel was laid down by Kaiserliche Werft in Danzig. She was launched on 16 December 1916 and she was commissioned on 8 January 1918. She made no war patrols.
During World War II, U-137 was a Type IID submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down 16 November 1939 by Deutsche Werke in Kiel. She was launched 18 May 1940 and commissioned on 15 June 1940 with Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Wohlfahrt in command.
U-238 conducted four patrols, sinking six ships totalling 15,469 tons and damaging two others displacing 15,469 tons. On November 17, 1940, She sank the 1-ton British merchant ship Saint Germain and the 1.3-ton Swedish steamer Veronica, both of the convoy HG-46. Upon Germany's surrender, she was scuttled on 2 May 1945 in the Raederschleuse at Wilhelmshaven. U-137 never suffered any casualties to her crew.
Another famous submarine with the same designation is the Soviet Whiskey class submarine U 137 that on October 27, 1981 ran aground just outside Karlskrona in Sweden.
