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U-110

U-110

Captured

Kriegsmarine (Germany)

TypeSubmarine
ClassType IXB
WarSecond World War

Forced to the surface by the escorts of convoy OB 318 on 9 May 1941. A boarding party from HMS Bulldog took her Enigma machine and codebooks, a secret kept until the 1950s, and she sank under tow.

Career

15–17 March 1941

Fritz-Julius Lemp; found the convoy

7–10 May 1941

Lemp and 14 men lost; 32 captured. Sank under tow