U-78

1940 Type VIIC submarine
Vehicle u_boat Q554611
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U-78

Summary

U-78 is an U-boat[1]. U-78 ranks in the top 6% of u_boat entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • U-78's instance of is recorded as U-boat[3].
  • U-78's operator is recorded as Kriegsmarine[4].
  • U-78's manufacturer is recorded as Bremer Vulkan[5].
  • U-78's vessel class is recorded as Type VIIC submarine[6].
  • U-78's shipping port is recorded as Gdynia[7].
  • U-78's participated in conflict is recorded as World War II[8].
  • U-78's yard number is recorded as 6[9].
  • U-78's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g648v[10].
  • U-78's significant event is recorded as order[11].
  • U-78's significant event is recorded as keel laying[12].
  • U-78's significant event is recorded as ship launching[13].
  • U-78's significant event is recorded as ship commissioning[14].
  • U-78's significant event is recorded as sinking[15].
  • U-78's described by source is recorded as uboat.net[16].
  • U-78's different from is recorded as SM U-78[17].
  • U-78's country of registry is recorded as Nazi Germany[18].

Why It Matters

U-78 ranks in the top 6% of u_boat entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[2] U-78 has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . ubootarchiv.de. Retrieved . ubootarchiv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . uboat.net. Retrieved . uboat.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . uboat.net. Retrieved . uboat.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . uboat.net. Retrieved . uboat.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . uboat.net. Retrieved . uboat.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Die deutschen U-Boot-Kommandanten (1 ed.). wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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