U-boats sunk in 1940

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: German submarine U-102 (1940), German submarine U-104 (1940), German submarine U-122 (1939), German submarine U-13 (1935), German submarine U-15 (1936), German submarine U-1 (1935), German submarine U-22 (1936), German submarine U-25 (1936), German submarine U-31 (1936), German submarine U-32 (1937), German submarine U-33 (1936), German submarine U-41 (1939), German submarine U-44 (1939), German submarine U-49 (1939), German submarine U-50 (1939), German submarine U-51 (1938), German submarine U-54 (1939), German submarine U-55 (1939), German submarine U-57 (1938), German submarine U-63 (1939), German submarine U-64 (1939). Excerpt: German submarine U-57 was a Type IIC U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine that served in the Second World War. She was built by Deutsche Werke AG in Kiel as 'werk' 256. Ordered on 17 June 1937, she was laid down on 14 September, launched on 3 September 1938 and commissioned on 29 December under the command of Oberleutnant Claus Korth. U-56 was initially part of the 5th U-boat Flotilla during her training period, until 31 December 1939, when she was re-assigned to the 1st U-boat Flotilla for operations. She carried out eleven war patrols, sinking eleven ships for a total 48,053 GRT and one auxiliary warship of 8,240 GRT; she also damaged two vessels totalling 10,403 GRT; one ship was declared a total loss (10,191GRT). The boat's first patrol was brief and passed without incident. For her second sortie, she departed Kiel on 5 September 1939, but went no further than the Kattegat. Her third effort was as far as the waters separating Orkney and Shetland, but success continued to elude her. It was more of the same for her fourth and fifth patrols, although her activity was centred more in the southern North Sea. The submarine's luck changed for the better on her sixth foray, when she sank the Miranda about 30 mi (48 km) northwest of Peterhead in Scotland on 20 January 1940. Sally number seven began with the boat's departure from Wilhelmshaven on 8 February 1940. On the 14th, she attacked the Gretafield southeast of Noss Head. The burnt-out ship, which had been abandoned, drifted ashore at Dunbeath in Caithness. She broke in two and was declared a total loss.U-57 was one of six U-boats that took part in Operation Nordmark; carrying out reconnaisance in the area of the Orkney and Shetland Islands for a subsequently unsuccessful sortie by the German capital ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper between 18 and 20 February 1940. On her eighth patrol, also executed in the vicinity of Orkney, she sank the Daghestan 9 mi (14 km) east of Copinsay, Orkney, on 25 March