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Originally Posted by dcb
After briefly googling the idea (which BTW is great), here is a brief reference:
- 5 U-boats including 1 by RAF Bay of Biscay patrol; 3 by US Navy in Azores and Madeira areas; 1 scuttled after storm damaged in mid-Atlantic.
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Exactly where is that listing? I searched the whole page and didn't see it.
1 out of 51. That's 2%
I looked all through here
http://uboat.net/fates/losses/ and couldn't find any u-boats officially lost due to storm damage. I may have missed it if there was one, and of course that doesn't count boats that took damage and survived. And there are a lot of "Missing".
As to the OP, a WW2 submarine is basically a surface ship that can dive for limited periods. On the other hand, if the storm is dangerous they could dive for quite a while, riding out the worst of it in safety.