how many ships were sunk by german u boats in ww1
U-boat Campaign (World War I) In the course of events, German U-boats sank almost 5,000 ships with nearly 13 million gross register ton, losing 178 boats and about 5,000 men in combat.[4]
List of U-boats of Germany In the World War II era, Germany commissioned some 1,250 U-boats into the Kriegsmarine.
U-boat On 5 September 1914, HMS Pathfinder was sunk by SM U-21, the first ship to have been sunk by a submarine using a self-propelled torpedo. On 22 September, U-9 sank the obsolete British warships HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy and HMS Hogue (the "Live Bait Squadron") in a single hour.
Andrea Gail All six of the crew were lost at sea.