WWI U-boats
UC 72
| Type | UC II | ||||
| Shipyard | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (Werk 288) | ||||
| Ordered | 12 Jan 1916 | ||||
| Launched | 12 Aug 1916 | ||||
| Commissioned | 5 Dec 1916 | ||||
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| Career | 8 patrols | ||||
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| Successes | 41 ships sunk with a total of 58,699 tons. 2 ships damaged with a total of 1,529 tons. (View ships hit by UC 72) | ||||
| Fate | 24 Aug 1917 - Mined while homebound through the Straits of Dover. Exact date of loss uncertain but not before August 23, 1917.. 31 dead (all hands lost). | ||||
Wreck identified in 2013 by a dive team led by Innes McCartney and Gerry Dowd.
Previously recorded fate
Sunk by Q-ship Acton on August 20, 1917. Two ship sinkings the next date that no other U-boat could be responsible for mean that UC 72 survived this encounter.