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KUK U5

1st September 1914 KUK U-5 Austrian Submarine
Type U-5 Shipyard Ordered Launched 10th February 1909 Commissioned 1st April 1910
Commanders
1 Apr 1910 - 5 Sep 1912 Urban Passerar
5 Sep 1912 - 8 Jun 1914 Lüdwig Eberhardt
8 Jun 1914 - 22 Apr 1915 Friedrich Schlosser
22 Apr 1915 - 10 Oct 1915 Georg Ritter von Trapp
10 Oct 1915 - 23 Nov 1915 Lüdwig Eberhardt
23 Nov 1915 - 15 Jul 1917 Friedrich Schlosser
27 Aug 1918 - 31 Oct 1918 Alfons Graf Montecuccoli
Career
No flotilla information available
Successes 1 ship sunk with a total of 7,929 tons.
1 ship taken as prize with a total of 1,034 tons.
2 warships sunk with a total of 12,641 tons.

27 Apr 1915 k.u.k. U5 Georg Ritter von Trapp Leon Gambetta 12,416 fr
5 Aug 1915 k.u.k. U5 Georg Ritter von Trapp Nereide 225 it
29 Aug 1915 k.u.k. U5 Georg Ritter von Trapp Cefalonia (prize) 1,034 gr
8 Jun 1916 k.u.k. U5 Friedrich Schlosser Principe Umberto 7,929 it

Fate Scrapped in 1920

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