U-boat: U 47

- U-boat: U 47

- Launched: 27th of February, 1937

- Commissioned: 17th of December, 1938

- Fate: The boat went missing on 7th of March 1941 in North-Atlantic.

NOTE: This was the boat of the legendary U-boat commander, Günther Prien, who attacked to the British naval base of Scapa Flow, with his boat, sinking the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. Prien and all of his men (45 of them), were lost when the boat was sunk.

 

 

German Warships

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