 Steinbauer also damaged three ships with a combined gross register tonnage of 16,967.Under the command of Hans Hermann Wendlandt, who had replaced Steinbauer in April 1917, "UB-47" sank an additional seven ships () through 21 July, at which time the ship was decommissioned and handed over to the Austro-Hungarian Navy.The "B" in her designation was dropped when she was commissioned as SM "U-47" for the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 30 July 1917.