Niko

Kevin,

Thanks for the offer to lok up the U shaped badge. I am familiar with the I shaped Austrian sub. I was curious about the ushaped badge I posetd because of the flag. Unfortunatley I can not see what is printed on the flag in the picture in the book. Here is a scan of another U shaped badge in commemoration of an event. It is from the same period as the other U shaped badge.

Regards,

Gordon

This U shaped badge should be the "Kappenabzeichen U 6 1688-1916", not commemorating any event in particular but simply dedicated to K.u.K. Ulanenregiment Kaiser Joseph II nr.6, based at Rzeszow (Poland) and composed by polish and rutenian troops.

Regards, Nico.

Gordon,

I am away from home at the moment and don't have my reference books handy, but my understanding is that SMU-40 was built in Pola by Cantiere Navale and not Budapest. I think the only warships built in or around Budapest were the Danube River Monitors.

Regards,

Ian

I think Ian is right.

Gordon, if you go on KuK-Kriegsmarine.at, you'll see that SMU40 was built in Pola by Cantiere Navale (in italian it means shipyard: Don't forget that at those times Istria, a mainly italian speaking land, was under the rule of Kaiser Franz Joseph...).

By the way, in my last post I forgot to give you another interesting site. If you go on the page , you'll see the changing of the Austro-Hungarian war flag during WWI (the same flag you see on the U-bootkappenabzeichen).

Regards,

Niko

IMHO the beadge with the U is a donation badge for the Austrian Unterseeboote (submarines). but i will try to look it up aswell.

regards

haynau

The badge shown should be the U-bootkappenabzeichen issued and sold by the Austrian Flottenverain as a way to raise funds for the building of a new submarine. The goal was successfully achieved: With the raised funds the new U 40 was launched on April 21th 1917.

This U-boot survived the war, but not for long. After the end of WWI, what was left from the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine was assigned to the winning Powers:Carried to Venice, U 40 was assigned to Italy in 1920 only to be dismantled the same year.

You can find an enlargement of this U-bootkappenabzeichen here: .

For something more on K.u.K. Kriegsmarine, included badges and U 40, see here: .

Regards, Nico

PS: Sorry for my broken English, but I'm not an English native speaker and it's my first post on this site too...