Name U-44 Commissioned 7 May 1915 Draft 3.74 m | Ordered 10 July 1913 Fate Sunk 12 August 1917 Launched 15 October 1914 | |
Displacement 725 t (714 long tons) surfaced940 t (930 long tons) submerged |
SM U-44 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. Launched in 1915, she was sunk in August 1917.
Operations
SM U-44, under the command of Paul Wagenführ, was completed at Danzig about June or July 1915. She later joined the Kiel School, where she remained until 20 August 1915 undergoing trials. She then proceeded to the North Sea and was attached to the 3rd Half Flotilla.
On 12 August 1917, U-44 was rammed and sunk in the North Sea south of Norway (58°50′N 4°20′E) by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Oracle with the loss of all 44 of her crew.
References
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