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List of Type IXB U-boats
The Type IXB class had 14 U-boats, all of which were built by AG Weser of Bremen:
Name (a) Hull builder Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Fate
U-64 AG Weser, Bremen 16 July 1937 15 December 1938 20 September 1939 16 December 1939 Sunk on 13 April 1940 in the Herjangsfjord near Narvik, Norway. 8 dead and 38 survivors.[3]
U-65 AG Weser, Bremen 16 July 1937 6 December 1938 6 November 1939 15 February 1940 Sunk on 28 April 1941 in the North Atlantic south-east of Iceland. All hands lost.[4]
U-103 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 6 September 1939 12 April 1940 5 July 1940 Sunk on 15 April 1945 at Kiel in an Allied bombing raid.[5]
U-104 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 10 November 1939 25 May 1940 19 August 1940 Missing since 28 November 1940 north-west of Ireland. All hands presumed lost.[6]
U-105 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 16 November 1939 15 June 1940 10 September 1940 Sunk 2 June 1943 near Dakar. All hands lost.[7]
U-106 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 26 November 1939 17 June 1940 24 September 1940 Sunk on 2 August 1943 north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain. 22 dead and 36 survivors.[8]
U-107 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 6 December 1939 2 July 1940 8 October 1940 Sunk on 18 August 1944 by depth charges from British aircraft.[9]
U-108 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 27 December 1939 15 July 1940 22 October 1940 Sunk on 11 April 1944 at Stettin during a bombing raid. Later raised and scuttled there on 24 April 1945.[10]
U-109 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 9 March 1940 14 September 1940 5 December 1940 Sunk on 4 May 1943 south of Ireland by depth charges from British aircraft. All hands lost.[11]
U-110 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May 1938 1 February 1940 25 August 1940 21 November 1940 Captured on 9 May 1941 in the North Atlantic south of Iceland by the destroyers HMS Bulldog, Broadway and the British corvette HMS Aubrietia. The Royal Navy allowed the U-boat to sink the next day in order to keep the documents captured from her a secret.[12]
U-111 AG Weser, Bremen 8 August 1939 20 February 1940 15 September 1940 19 December 1940 Sunk on 4 October 1941 south-west of Tenerife by depth charges from a British warship. 8 dead and 44 survivors.[13]
U-122 AG Weser, Bremen 15 December 1937 5 March 1939 20 December 1939 30 March 1940 Went missing on 22 June 1940. All hands presumed lost.[14]
U-123 AG Weser, Bremen 15 December 1937 15 April 1939 2 March 1940 30 May 1940 Scuttled at Lorient on 19 August 1944. Raised and later became the French submarine Blaison.[15]
U-124 AG Weser, Bremen 15 December 1937 11 August 1939 9 March 1940 11 June 1940 Sunk 2 April 1943 west of Oporto by depth charges from the British warships HMS Stonecrop and Black Swan. All hands lost.[16]
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The The FIDO (Mk 24 'mine') air-dropped homing torpedo was a game changer.
The tactic was to allow the U-boat to submerge and then go in and drop the homing mine ( torpedo ).
Mark 24 mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_24_mine
Torpedo MK 24 - "FIDO"
https://uboat.net/allies/technical/fido.htm
The tactic was to allow the U-boat to submerge and then go in and drop the homing mine ( torpedo ).
Mark 24 mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_24_mine
Torpedo MK 24 - "FIDO"
https://uboat.net/allies/technical/fido.htm
In 1945 my father was an RCAF officer flying anti-sub patrols out of BC (Pat bay, I think).
One day he was at the outdoor patio of the officers mess and they saw a balloon come down and settle in a tree in the back yard.
In his photo album is a piece of the balloon skin. Apparently they all took a piece of it as a souvenir. They knew it had come from Japan. He never mentioned anything about what might have been hanging on it.
Maybe it had dropped the payload off shore or farther south.
I live close to a community called Cherryville BC. Last summer, some loggers came across the remains of one of the Japanese balloon bombs. Not much left, other than a metal ring that held the bombs
We're over 500 kliks from the Pacific coast
