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During his war time career, he fired only four torpedoes (one miss) and sank his victims (194 ships totalling 454,000 tons) always strictly according to prize rules with his boat's 88 mm deck gun. His patrol performance was outstanding: in April/May 1916 he sank 23 ships, totalling 68,000 tons on a five week patrol and in July/August 1916 in four weeks he sank 54 ships, totalling 91,150 tons.
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I talked to U-boat.net's proprieter years ago and I thought he had fixed that. According to Edwin Gray's
U-boat War: 1914-1918 la Perriere fired a lot more than four torpedoes during his career. It was on the four-week, 54-ship, 91,150-ton patrol that he only fired four. Still a major accomplishment, but not quite the same thing. Also, he fired over 900 rounds from his deck gun, so he has to have docked somewhere several times, because there's no way he could carry that many.