Service Career
All the boats of the U-27 class, the most numerous of all the Austro-Hungarian submarine classes, saw active service, and all but one boat had wartime successes; U-30 sank no ships during her career, and disappeared after the end of March 1917, the only boat of the class to be lost during the war. U-31 and U-41 also had little success, each credited with sinking a single ship. At the other end of the spectrum, U-27, the lead boat of the class, sank the largest number of ships, 33, and U-28 sank the greatest amount of tonnage, 44,743 GRT.
At the end of the war, U-27 and U-32 were surrendered at Pola, while U-28 and U-40 were surrendered at Venice. All four of these boats were ceded to Italy as war reparations and were scrapped by 1920. U-29, U-31, and U-41 were half of the six submarines at Cattaro, and were all awarded to France. The boats were towed from Cattaro to Bizerta, but U-29 foundered en route; U-31, U-41, and the others were scrapped within twelve months of their arrival there.
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