List of Austro-Hungarian U-boats
The
Great Power.[1] Montecuccoli immediately pursued the efforts championed by his predecessor, Admiral Hermann von Spaun, and pushed to greatly expand and modernize the Austro-Hungarian Navy. By the spring of 1905, Montecuccoli envisioned a modern Austrian fleet of 12 battleships, four armoured cruisers, eight scout cruisers, 18 destroyers, 36 high seas torpedo craft, and six submarines.[2]
The
landlocked
in the aftermath of the war, no Austrian or Hungarian submarines (or any other naval vessels) have been commissioned since.
In some sources Austro-Hungarian U-boats are referenced with Roman numerals as a way to distinguish them from German U-boats with similar numbers, but the Austro-Hungarian Navy itself used Arabic numerals. There are gaps in the numbering for several reasons. One series of Austro-Hungarian U-boats under construction in Germany was sold and commissioned into the Imperial German Navy. In other cases, U-boats commissioned into the Imperial German Navy were temporarily assigned Austro-Hungarian numbers when they operated in the Mediterranean. One final reason, in the case of the unassigned U-13, was superstition.
Austro-Hungarian U-boats
Commissioned
| U-boat | Class | Launched | Commissioned | Fate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SM U-1 | U-1 class
|
2 October 1909 | 15 April 1911 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-2 | U-1 class
|
3 April 1909 | 22 May 1911 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-3 | U-3 class
|
8 August 1908 | 12 September 1909 | Sunk 13 August 1915 | |
| SM U-4 | U-3 class
|
20 November 1908 | 29 August 1909 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-5 | U-5 class
|
10 February 1909 | 1 April 1910 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-6 | U-5 class
|
12 June 1909 | 1 July 1910 | Scuttled 13 May 1916 | |
| SM U-10 | U-10 class
|
29 January 1915 | 12 July 1915 | Mined 9 July 1918; scrapped 1918 | The former German SM UB-1
|
| SM U-11 | U-10 class
|
4 April 1915 | 20 June 1915 | Scrapped 1920 | The former German SM UB-15
|
| SM U-12 | U-5 class
|
14 March 1911 | 21 August 1914 | Sunk 12 August 1916 | Raised and scrapped end of 1916 |
| SM U-14 | U-14 class
|
18 July 1912 | 1 June 1915 | Returned to France, 1919; scrapped 1929 | Captured French submarine Curie (Q 87) |
| SM U-15 | U-10 class
|
April 1915 | 6 October 1915 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-16 | U-10 class
|
26 April 1915 | 6 October 1915 | Sunk | |
| SM U-17 | U-10 class
|
21 April 1915 | 6 October 1915 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-20 | U-20 class
|
18 September 1916 | 20 October 1917 | Sunk | Wreck raised in 1962; conning tower on display in Vienna |
| SM U-21 | U-20 class
|
15 August 1916 | 15 August 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-22 | U-20 class
|
27 January 1917 | 23 November 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-23 | U-20 class
|
5 January 1917 | 1 September 1917 | Sunk 21 February 1918 | |
| SM U-27 | U-27 class
|
19 October 1916 | 24 February 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-28 | U-27 class
|
8 January 1917 | 26 May 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-29 | U-27 class
|
21 October 1916 | 21 January 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-30 | U-27 class
|
27 December 1916 | 17 February 1917 | Went missing after 31 March 1917 | |
| SM U-31 | U-27 class
|
28 March 1917 | 24 April 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-32 | U-27 class
|
11 May 1917 | 29 June 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-40 | U-27 class
|
21 April 1917 | 4 August 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | |
| SM U-41 | U-27 class
|
11 November 1917 | 19 February 1918 | Scrapped 1920 | |
SM U-43
|
U-43 class
|
8 April 1916 | 30 July 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | The former German SM UB-43 |
SM U-47
|
U-43 class
|
17 June 1916 | 30 July 1917 | Scrapped 1920 | The former German SM UB-47 |
Other
Submarines on which construction was begun but which were not completed or commissioned during World War I are included in this table.
| U-boat | Class | Laid down/Launched/Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-48 | U-48 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-49 | U-48 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-50 | U-50 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-51 | U-50 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-52 | U-52 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-53 | U-52 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-101 | U-101 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-102 | U-101 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-103 | U-101 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-107 | U-107 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
| U-108 | U-107 class | laid down, not launched or completed | scrapped at war's end |
German U-boats operating under the Austro-Hungarian flag
After Italy had entered
Mediterranean were assigned Austro-Hungarian numbers and flags. In some cases the same Austro-Hungarian numbers were assigned to different German U-boats. After 28 August 1916, when Germany and Italy were officially at war, the practice continued, primarily to avoid charges of flag misuse. The practice was largely ended by 1 October 1916 except for a few large U-boats that continued using Austro-Hungarian numbers.[3]
| Austro-Hungarian name |
German U-boat name(s) |
|---|---|
| SM U-7 | SM UB-7 |
| SM U-8 | SM UB-8 |
| SM U-9 | SM UB-3[4][Note 1] |
| SM U-18 | SM UC-14 |
| SM U-19 | SM UC-15 |
| SM U-24 | SM UC-12 |
| SM U-25 | SM UC-13 |
| SM U-26 | SM UB-14 |
| SM U-33 | SM U-33 |
| SM U-34 | SM U-34 |
| SM U-35 | SM U-35 |
| SM U-36 | SM U-21 SM U-47 |
| SM U-37 | SM U-32 |
| SM U-38 | SM U-38 |
| SM U-39 | SM U-39 |
| SM U-42 | SM UB-42 |
| SM U-44 | SM UB-44 |
| SM U-45 | SM UB-45 |
| SM U-46 | SM UB-46 |
| SM U-54 | SM UB-128 |
| SM U-55 | SM UB-129 |
| SM U-56 | SM UB-130 |
| SM U-57 | SM UB-131 |
| SM U-58 | SM UB-132 |
| SM U-60 | SM UC-20 |
| SM U-62 | SM UC-22 |
| SM U-63 | SM UC-23 SM UC-63 |
| SM U-64 | SM U-64 |
| SM U-65 | SM U-65 |
| SM U-66 | SM UB-66 SM UC-66 |
| SM U-67 | SM UB-67 |
| SM U-68 | SM UB-68 |
| SM U-69 | SM UB-69 SM UC-69 |
| SM U-70 | SM UB-70 |
| SM U-71 | SM UB-71 |
| SM U-72 | SM U-72 |
| SM U-73 | SM U-73 |
| SM U-74 | SM UC-34 |
| SM U-75 | SM UC-35 |
| SM U-77 | SM UC-37 |
| SM U-78 | SM UC-16 SM UC-38 |
| SM U-79 | SM UB-48 |
| SM U-80 | SM UB-49 |
| SM U-81 | SM UB-50 |
| SM U-82 | SM UB-51 |
| SM U-83 | SM U-63 SM UB-52 SM UC-20 SM UC-23 |
| SM U-88 | SM UC-24 |
| SM U-89 | SM UC-25 |
| SM U-92 | SM UC-73 |
| SM U-93 | SM UC-74 |
| SM U-94 | SM UC-52 |
| SM U-95 | SM UC-53 |
| SM U-96 | SM UC-54 |
| SM U-97 | SM UB-105 |
| SM U-99 | SM UC-103 |
| SM U-110 | SM UC-108 |
| SM U-133 | SM UB-133 |
| SM U-134 | SM UB-134 |
| SM U-135 | SM UB-135 |
| SM U-146 | SM UB-146 |
| SM U-147 | SM UB-147 |
Notes
- ^ Conway's (p. 341) lists UB-9 as the Austro-Hungarian U-9, but that boat was a training boat at Kiel and not a part of the German Pola Flotilla.
References
- ^ Vego, pp. 38.
- ^ Vego, pp. 39.
- ^ a b Gardiner, p. 341.
- ^ Myszor, Oskar. "Austria-Hungary: Submarines". Historical Handbook of World Navies. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
Bibliography
- Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One, Originally published 1919, Republished by Random House Ltd, Great Britain: 1990. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. OCLC 12119866.
- Vego, Milan N. (1996). Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904–14. London: Frank Cass Publishers. OCLC 560641850.