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Ships hit by U-23

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Please note that in the table below you can find a 'Map' column. This helps to find that particular attack on the map below.

Date Commander Name of ship Tons Nat. Convoy Map
4 Oct 1939 Otto Kretschmer Glen Farg 876 br A
8 Dec 1939 Otto Kretschmer Scotia 2,400 da B
11 Jan 1940 Otto Kretschmer Fredville 1,150 nw C
12 Jan 1940 Otto Kretschmer Danmark (t.) 10,517 da D
24 Jan 1940 Otto Kretschmer Varild 1,085 nw E
18 Feb 1940 Otto Kretschmer HMS Daring (H 16) 1,375 br HN-12 F
19 Feb 1940 Otto Kretschmer Tiberton 5,225 br G
22 Feb 1940 Otto Kretschmer Loch Maddy (t.) 4,996 br HX-19 H
24 Aug 1943 Rolf-Birger Wahlen Shkval 35 sj I
15 Oct 1943 Rolf-Birger Wahlen TSC-486 Sovetskaja Rossija (d.) 1,005 sj J
23 Oct 1943 Rolf-Birger Wahlen Tanais 372 sj K
5 Apr 1944 Rolf-Birger Wahlen SKA-099 (d.) 56 sj L
29 May 1944 Rolf-Birger Wahlen Smelyj 71 sj M
1 Sep 1944 Rudolf Arendt Oituz (t.) 2,686 ro N
31,849
12 ships sunk (30,788 tons) and 2 ships damaged (1,061 tons).Legend We have a picture of this vessel.(d.) means the ship was damaged.(t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).

ship sunk or total loss (9). ship damaged (5).

In some cases the exact positions of losses are not known, those are not shown.
In other cases the posititions are too close and the markers overlap, not much we can do about that.

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