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===War record=== Trapp's patrols in ''U-5'' and ''U-14'' made him the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of World War I, sinking 11 Allied merchant ships totaling 47,653 [[Gross register tonnage|GRT]] and two Allied warships [[Displacement (ship)|displacing]] a total of 12,641 tons.<ref name="uboat.net"/>{{efn|name=hudecek|Some sources incorrectly credit [[Zdenko Hudeček]] with being the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of the war.<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Hara |first1=Vincent P. |title=To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War |date=2013 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=9781612512693 |quote=Overall, Austro-Hungarian submarines in the Adiratic and Mediterranean sank 196,093 GRT of enemy and neutral merchant ships. The top aces were Lieutenant Commander Zdenko Hudecek and Georg von Trapp, who accounted for 47,788 and 44,595 GRT, respectively.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pergl |first1=G. E. |title=Historical Abstracts: Twentieth century abstracts, 1914-. Part B. |date=1973 |publisher=American Bibliographical Center of ABC-Clio |page=14 |quote=... show clearly that the Austrian submarine ace of the period was not George von Trapp, but Zdenko Hudeček, who with his submarine U-28, sank 12 enemy ships, totaling 48,000 tons gross weight.}}</ref> Trapp is ahead of Hudeček when warship displacement is added to merchant tonnage, giving him over 60,000 tons of enemy ships sunk.<ref name="foundation_naval"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sondhaus |first1=Lawrence |title=The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781107036901 |page=275 |quote=The leading commanders in terms of tonnage sunk were Germany's Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ... and for Austria-Hungary's much smaller effort, Georg von Trapp, who sank 60,294 tons ...}}</ref> Hudeček is competitive on merchant ship tonnage sunk, but only when he is credited with sinking the British tanker ''Mitra'', which was actually damaged but not sunk.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tanker Mitra |url=https://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4185.html |website=uboat.net}}</ref><ref name="sárhida">{{cite book |last1=Sárhida |first1=Gyula |title=Tengerek szürke farkasai |date=1989 |publisher=Maecenas |location=Budapest |isbn=9789637425158 |page=98 |quote=1. von Trapp, U-14, 11- 44 595 BRT* 2. Hudecek, U-17, U-28, 11- 39 727 BRT}}</ref> When ''Mitra'' is removed from Hudeček's list, Trapp is ahead even on merchant shipping.<ref name="sárhida"/><ref name="uboat.net"/><ref name="uboat.net_hudecek">{{cite web |title=Linenschiffleutnant Zdenko Hudecek|url=https://www.uboat.net/wwi/men/commanders/513.html |website=uboat.net}}</ref>}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+ Vessels attacked while in command of ''U-5'' ! scope="col" | Date ! scope="col" | Vessel ! scope="col" | Nationality ! scope="col" | Fate |- | align="right"|27 April 1915 | align="left" |{{ship|French cruiser|Léon Gambetta||2}} | align="left" |{{navy|France|name=France}} | align="right"|Sunk |- | align="right"|5 August 1915 | align="left" |{{ship|Italian submarine|Nereide|1913|2}} | align="left" |{{navy|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} | align="right"|Sunk |- | align="right"|29 August 1915 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in August 1915#29 August|''Cefalonia'']] | align="left" |{{flag|Greece|old}} | align="left" |Captured |- |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+ Vessels sunk while in command of ''U-14'' ! scope="col" | Date ! scope="col" | Vessel ! scope="col" | Nationality ! scope="col" | Location |- | align="right"|28 April 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in April 1917#28 April|''Teakwood'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|36|39|N|21|10|E}} |- | align="right"|3 May 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in May 1917#3 May|''Antonio Sciesa'']] | align="left" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} | align="right"|{{Coord|36|39|N|21|15|E}} |- | align="right"|5 July 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in July 1917#5 July|''Marionga Goulandris'']] | align="left" |{{flag|Kingdom of Greece|state|name=Greece}} | align="right"|{{Coord|35|38|N|22|36|E}} |- | align="right"|23 August 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in August 1917#23 August|''Constance'']] | align="left" |{{flag|French Third Republic|name=France}} | align="right"|{{Coord|36|51|N|17|25|E}} |- | align="right"|24 August 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in August 1917#24 August|''Kilwinning'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|35|26|N|16|30|E}} |- | align="right"|26 August 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in August 1917#26 August|''Titian'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|34|20|N|17|30|E}} |- | align="right"|28 August 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in August 1917#28 August|''Nairn'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|34|05|N|19|20|E}} |- | align="right"|29 August 1917 | align="left" |{{SS|Milazzo||2}} | align="left" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} | align="right"|{{Coord|34|44|N|19|16|E}} |- | align="right"|18 October 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in October 1917#18 October|''Good Hope'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|35|53|N|17|05|E}} |- | align="right"|18 October 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in October 1917#18 October|''Elsiston'']] | align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} | align="right"|{{Coord|35|40|N|17|28|E}} |- | align="right"|23 October 1917 | align="left" |[[List of shipwrecks in October 1917#23 October|''Capo Di Monte'']] | align="left" |{{flag|Kingdom of Italy|name=Italy}} | align="right"|{{Coord|34|53|N|19|50|E}} |}
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