Decommissioned on 22 October 1943 and used as instructional boat.
Sunk on 3 May 1945 at Neustadt, in position 54.07N, 10.50E, by rockets from four British Typhoon aircraft (175 Sqn RAF). Wreck broken up.
For the second day in a row, the outbound boat encountered an enemy submarine in the North Sea. This time a torpedo track was seen passing the bow at a distance of about 50m (55 yards).
The boat encountered a British submarine in the North Atlantic, which fired two torpedoes, but both missed.
12 recorded attacks on this boat.
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 1 Apr 1917 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 15 May 1917. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 101 during WWI.