U-124

Sunk

Type	Submarine
Class	Type IXB
War	Second World War
Main guns	1 × 4.1″ gun

The 'Edelweiss boat'. Sank ships of convoy SC 7 and, in November 1941, the cruiser Dunedin. Sunk with all hands west of Portugal on 2 April 1943 by the sloop Black Swan and the corvette Stonecrop.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Wimpel künden den Erfolg. Schwer umkämpft sind die Zahlen auf den kleinen weissen Wimpeln, die das heimkehrende Untersee-Boot stolz gesetzt Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

6 × torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
22 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedoes
1 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/32 deck gun (180 rounds)
1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 AA gun
1 × 2 cm FlaK 30 AA guns

Builder	DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen
Laid down	11 August 1939
Launched	9 March 1940
Commissioned	11 June 1940
Displacement	1,051 tonnes (1,034 long tons) surfaced 1,178 tonnes (1,159 long tons) submerged
Length	76.50 m (251 ft) o/a 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in) pressure hull
Speed	18.2 knots (33.7 km/h; 20.9 mph) surfaced 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph) submerged
Complement	4 officers, 44 enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

9 March 1940

Convoy SC 7

Survived

16–19 October 1940

Georg-Wilhelm Schulz

Fate

Sunk

Sunk 2 April 1943