V-weapons vast majority aimed at London; 2,515 reached the city, killing 6,184 civilians and injuring 17,981. Croydon to the south, on the flight path of the V1s suffered severely taking 142 hits. V-2 rocket launching sites were set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 September 1944. The first was launched from here against London on 8 September 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles from the Hague to London where it struck at 6.43pm on 8 September on Chiswick causing thirteen casualties. As the V2 explosions came without warning, the
Type XXIII submarine were subsequently scrapped incomplete, with the others cancelled and never begun; and three hundred at Kiel ("U-4701" to "U-5000"), where twelve ("U-4701" to "U-4712") were actually built although only eight were launched and the other four bombed on 4 May 1945 while still on the stocks (orders for "U-4713" to "U-4891" were cancelled, while "U-4892" to "U-5000" were projected only). The first Type XXIII, , was launched from Deutsche Werft in Hamburg on 17 April 1944. It was one of six XXIIIs that went on operational patrol around the British Isles in early 1945. Forty-eight others followed from Deutsche Werft