WWI U-boat Successes

Ships hit by U 79

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Date	U-boat	Commander	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.

14 Sep 1916	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Counsellor	4,958		br
26 Dec 1916	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Johan	828		da
27 Dec 1916	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Copsewood	599		br
27 Dec 1916	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Ida	1,300		nw
30 Dec 1916	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Danmark	1,875		da

1 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Laupar	1,407		nw
2 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Older	2,256		nw
3 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Angela	2,422		it
3 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Valladares	124		pt
4 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Chinto Maru	2,592		jp
10 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Brookwood	3,093		br
24 Jan 1917	U 79	Heinrich Jeß	Nanna (p.)	1,125		nw
14 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Carthaginian	4,444		br
22 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Maggie	1,118		nw
23 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Corientes	280		br
26 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Charles Astie	295		br
26 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Serapis	1,932		br
30 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Bröderna	39		sw
30 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	LANCASTER	77		sw
30 Jun 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Preceptor	55		sw
13 Aug 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Camito (d.)	6,611		br
2 Oct 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Brisk (hms) (d.)	790		br
2 Oct 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Drake (hms)	14,300		br
2 Oct 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Lugano	3,810		br
23 Oct 1917	U 79	Otto Rohrbeck	Earl Lennox	226		br

12 Jan 1918	U 79	Karl Thouret	Caledonia (d.)	863		nl
15 Jan 1918	U 79	Karl Thouret	Westpolder	749		nl
				58,168
24 ships sunk (49,904 tons) and 3 ships damaged (8,264 tons). Legend (d.) means the ship was damaged. (p.) means the ship was taken as prize (included in ships & tonnage lost). We have a picture of this vessel.

Below is a map showing the locations of the attacks in question:

In some cases the exact positions of losses are not known, those are not shown.