Years of service 1898 – 1920 Battles and wars U-boat Campaign | Name Waldemar Kophamel Rank Fregattenkapitan Allegiance German Empire | |
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Commands held U-35, Nov 3, 1914 – November 12, 1915
U-140, Mar 28, 1918 – November 11, 1918 Battles/wars U-boat Campaign (World War I) Died November 4, 1934, Plon, Germany Awards House Order of Hohenzollern, Order of the Red Eagle, Pour le Merite | ||
Service/branch Imperial German Navy | ||
Commander Waldemar Kophamel (August 16, 1880 – November 4, 1934) was a successful and highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. Kophamel joined the Imperial German Navy on 12 April 1898 and started his military education on a ship named SMS Stosch.
In his time as commander of U-35 and U-140 he succeeded in sinking 54 ships for a total tonnage of 148,852 gross register tons (GRT). One of his notable actions was sinking the Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71). Before doing so he allowed the crew, as well as survivors they had rescued from another of his victims, the SS Merak, to evacuate the ship.
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