U 11 (Navy)
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 U 11 (front center) in front of the submarine escort ship Saar , 1936 |
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| Type : | II B |
| Field Post Number : | M 27 219 |
| Shipyard: | Germania shipyard , Kiel |
| Construction contract: | July 20, 1934 |
| Build number: | 545 |
| Keel laying: | May 6, 1935 |
| Launch: | August 27, 1935 |
| Commissioning: | September 21, 1935 |
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| Calls: | no ventures |
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| Whereabouts: | self-sunk on May 3, 1945 ( rainbow order ) |
U 11 was a German submarine from the type II B , which from the Navy was used as a school boat.
history
The Germania shipyard in Kiel was given the building contract for the boat by the Reichsmarine on July 20, 1934. This was a circumvention of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , since the German-British naval agreement only allowed the German Reich to build a submarine weapon from the summer of 1935. For reasons of confidentiality, assembly of the boats was therefore only started in March of the following year. Although the provisions of the naval agreement did not come into force until June 18, the German naval forces, which had meanwhile been renamed "Kriegsmarine", had their submarines a few days later: between June 29 and August 31, the first eight German U- Boats put into service. This now made the blatant violation of the Versailles Treaty obvious. The keel of the boat with hull number 545 took place on March 25, 1935, the launch on August 27, 1935. Lieutenant Hans-Rudolf Rösing put the boat under the designation U 11 on September 21, 1935 into service.
commitment
After commissioning, the boat served as a school boat for the U-Boat School Flotilla until June 30, 1940 . At the beginning of the war, U 11 was one of the 30 "dugout canoes" of the Kriegsmarine, which were suitable for limited combat tasks in the North Sea and (mainly) the Baltic Sea, of which only 18 were fully or almost ready for action . However, the boat was still used for training purposes. From July 1 to November 30, 1940, it was subject to the 1st U-Flotilla in Kiel. Then the boat was reassigned to the submarine school flotilla, which no longer belonged to the submarine school, but had been relocated to Pillau under its new name 21st U-Flotilla in early July 1940 . The boat stayed there until May 1941. From May to September 1941 it was used as a test boat for measures against underwater location at the NEK in Pillau and Neufahrwasser. Finally, U 11 came to the 5th U-Flotilla in Kiel on October 1, 1941 , where it was also used as a test boat . Then from March 1, 1943 until the end of the war, the 22nd U-Flotilla came to Gotenhafen , where it was used again as a school boat.
The boat did not do any war missions during its service and was used exclusively as a training or test boat.
Whereabouts
U 11 was blown up on May 3, 1945 according to the long-standing rainbow order in Kiel , which was canceled by Grand Admiral Dönitz on the evening of May 4, 1945 , after it was decommissioned on December 14, 1944 in Gotenhafen and on January 5 1945 was towed to Kiel. The rest of U 11 was scrapped in Kiel in 1947.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ boats of this submarine class were as dugout canoes called
- ↑ Michael Salewski : "Exoriare aliquis nostris es ossibus ultor" Fall and resurrection in German naval history. in Wilfried Rädisch (Ed.): Werner Rahn - Service and Science . Military History Research Office MGFA, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-941571-08-2
- ↑ Harald Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume one: U-boat construction at German shipyards . Publishing house ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg u. a. 1997 ISBN 3 8132 0512 6 , page 16
- ↑ Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume One: The Hunters 1939-1942 . Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-12345-X , page 86
- ↑ the abbreviation NEK denotes the "communications equipment test command"
- ↑ Harald Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume one: U-boat construction at German shipyards . Publishing house ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg u. a. 1997 ISBN 3 8132 0512 6 , page 334