 "U-28" was surrendered at Venice in 1919, granted to Italy as a war reparation and broken up the following year.Austria-Hungary's U-boat fleet was largely obsolete at the outbreak of World War I.The Austro-Hungarian Navy satisfied its most urgent needs by purchasing five Type UB I submarines that comprised the from Germany, by raising and recommissioning the sunken French submarine "Curie" as , and by building four submarines of the that were based on the 1911 Danish "Havmanden" class.