Unterseeboot 103 (1940)

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U-103
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IXB
Fieldpost number	M 05 635
Shipyard	AG Weser, Bremen
Yard number	966
Ordered	May 24, 1938
Laid down	September 6, 1939
Launched	April 12, 1940
Commissioned	July 5, 1940
Career
Patrols	11
Flotillas	2. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Viktor Schütze Werner Winter Gustav-Adolf Janssen Heinz Murl Hans-Norbert Schunck
Successes
45 ships sunk for a total of 237.596 GRT 3 ships damaged for a total of 28.158 GRT
Fate
Sunk April 15, 1945 in the Kiel. 1 dead.

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 a unknown number of survivors.