WWI U-boats

UB 32

Type UB II
ShipyardBlohm & Voss, Hamburg (Werk 256)
Ordered 22 Jul 1915
Launched 4 Dec 1915
Commissioned 10 Apr 1916
Commanders
11 Apr 1916 - 4 Dec 1916 Kptlt. Ludwig Karl Sahl
5 Dec 1916 - 24 Feb 1917 Oblt. Karl Ruprecht
25 Feb 1917 - 5 Aug 1917 Kptlt. Max Viebeg (Pour le Mérite)
6 Aug 1917 - 22 Sep 1917 Oblt. Benno von Ditfurth
Career 16 patrols
25 May 1916 - 24 Feb 1917 Baltic Flotilla
24 Feb 1917 - 22 Sep 1917 Flandern Flotilla
Successes22 ships sunk with a total of 42,893 tons.
4 ships damaged with a total of 19,933 tons. (View ships hit by UB 32)
Fate 22 Sep 1917 - Possibly sunk by bombs dropped from RNAS aircraft off the Belgian coast. 24 dead (all hands lost).

The wreck of UB 32 was first located in 2009 but only identified as such as in 2021. The attribution to air attack is somewhat uncertain; the wreck lies some 13 miles from the listed site of the air attack but only a mile from a minefield.


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