U 15 (German Armed Forces)
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 U 15 together with U 17 in Wilhelmshaven |
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| Type : | Class 206 A |
| Shipyard: | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft |
| Build number: | 33 |
| Keel laying: | June 1, 1970 |
| Launch: | June 15, 1972 |
| Commissioning: | 17th July 1974 |
| Decommissioning: | December 14, 2010 |
U 15 ( vessel identification S 194) was a German submarine of the class 206 A . It wasstationedwith the 3rd submarine squadron of the German Navy in Eckernförde .
history
construction
U 15 was put into service with the 3rd U-boat squadron in the German Navy in 1974 . From November 27, 1989 to August 1991, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft converted it to the improved class 206 A.
Calls
In the summer of 2005 U 15 left Eckernförde to take part in the NATO operation Active Endeavor . To do this, it operated in the Mediterranean . After 153 days, U 15 returned to its home port on December 19, 2005. The boat thus undertook one of the longest journeys without a crew change in the history of the German Navy after 1945.
Average
On the night of January 26th to 27th, 2006, U 15 drove to the surface of the Baltic Sea when it ran aground on the south side of Eckernförde Bay . Only after six hours could the boat be towed free from Kiel with the help of the mine-hunting boat Dillingen and the marine tug Langeness . Nobody was injured and there was no damage to the environment.
Whereabouts
U 15 was decommissioned on December 14, 2010 and is now in the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven .
The submarine is to be transferred to the Technik Museum Sinsheim (formerly the Auto- und Technikmuseum Sinsheim) after demilitarization in mid-2018 and then exhibited there.
Sponsorship
In 1974 the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen took over the sponsorship for the submarine.
Individual evidence
- ^ U-boat stranded in Eckernförde Bay. In: Spiegel Online. January 27, 2006, accessed December 2, 2014 .
- ↑ As long as the Concorde - but much, much slower. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Bernd Klagholz, Gisela Fechner: 750 Years of Leinfelden - A Chronicle. (PDF; 1.71 MiB) In: Official Gazette Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Stadtarchiv / Stadt Leinfelden-Echterdingen, May 3, 2019, p. 16 , accessed on April 16, 2020 .