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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment

SM U-77



10th March 1916   SM U-77

Type UE 1 Shipyard Vulcan, Hamburg (Werk 59) Ordered 9 Mar 1915 Launched 9 Jan 1916 Commissioned 10 Mar 1916

Commanders.
10 Mar 1916 - 7 Jul 1916 Erich Günzel

Career 2 patrols.
29 Jun 1916 - 7 Jul 1916 I Flotilla

Successes No successes.

Fate 7 Jul 1916 - Lost after this date while on a mission to lay mines off Kinnaird Head, Scotland. 33 dead (all hands lost). U 77 got at least some of her mines out before her loss.

Previously recorded fate.
Lost in a minehandling accident off Dunbar, Scotland. The wreck at that location is undoubtedly that of U 74.

There was another U 77 in World War Two.
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 23 Nov 1940 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 18 Jan 1941.

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