Type | IX | |||||||||||||
Ordered | 21 Nov 1936 | |||||||||||||
Laid down | 27 Nov 1937 | AG Weser, Bremen (werk 946) | ||||||||||||
Launched | 28 Jan 1939 | |||||||||||||
Commissioned | 22 Apr 1939 | Oblt. Gustav-Adolf Mugler | ||||||||||||
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Career 3 patrols |
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Successes | 5 ships sunk, total tonnage 22,815 GRT 2 ships captured, total tonnage 2,073 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 8,096 GRT | |||||||||||||
Fate |
Sunk on 5 February 1940 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 49.20N, 10.04W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Antelope. 49 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||||||
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Attacks on this boat and other events
16 Nov 1939
British escorts from convoy SL 7 hunted and depth charged the boat for 20 hours. (Sources: Blair, vol 1, page 119)
1 recorded attack on this boat.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-41 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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There was another U-41 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 10 Oct 1914 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 1 Feb 1915. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 41 during WWI.
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