WWI U-boats
UB 32
Type | UB II | ||||||||||
Shipyard | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (Werk 256) | ||||||||||
Ordered | 22 Jul 1915 | ||||||||||
Launched | 4 Dec 1915 | ||||||||||
Commissioned | 10 Apr 1916 | ||||||||||
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Career | 16 patrols | ||||||||||
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Successes | 22 ships sunk with a total of 42,893 tons. 4 ships damaged with a total of 19,933 tons. (View ships hit by UB 32) | ||||||||||
Fate | 22 Sep 1917 - Possibly sunk by bombs dropped from RNAS aircraft off the Belgian coast. 24 dead (all hands lost). |
The wreck of UB 32 was first located in 2009 but only identified as such as in 2021. The attribution to air attack is somewhat uncertain; the wreck lies some 13 miles from the listed site of the air attack but only a mile from a minefield.