U 22 (Navy)

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U 22 (Kriegsmarine)
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U 22 (uA) in Kiel
Type : II B
Field Post Number : M-26 177
Shipyard: Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: February 2, 1935
Build number: 552
Keel laying: April 2, 1936
Launch: July 29, 1936
Commissioning: August 20, 1936
Commanders:
  • December 23, 1936 - October 4, 1937
    Lieutenant Harald Grosse
  • October 5, 1937 - October 3, 1939
    Lieutenant Captain Werner Winter
  • October 4, 1939 - March 27, 1940
    Lieutenant Captain Karl-Heinrich Jenisch
Calls: 7 patrols
Sinkings:
  • 9 ships (12,271 GRT )
  • 2 warships (2009 t)
Whereabouts: missing since March 27, 1940 in the North Sea

U 22 was a German submarine of type II B , which in the Second World War by the Navy was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the Germania shipyard in Kiel on February 2, 1935 , the keel was laid on April 2, 1936, the launch on July 29, 1936, the commissioning on August 20, 1936.

After commissioning, the boat belonged to the U-Flotilla “Weddigen” and the U-Flotilla “Lohs” in Kiel until December 31, 1939 as a combat and front boat . After the reorganization of the U-Flotilla, the boat belonged to the 1st U-Flotilla in Kiel from January 1, 1940 until it was sunk in March 1940 .

U 22 undertook seven patrols on which nine ships with a total tonnage of 12,452 GRT were sunk.

Use statistics

First patrol

The boat left Memel on August 26, 1939 at 5:50 p.m. and entered Kiel on September 9, 1939. During this 15-day operation in the Baltic Sea and the Gdańsk Bay to monitor the Polish coast during the all over Poland , no ships were sunk or damaged.

Second patrol

The boat left Kiel on September 27, 1939 at 1:30 a.m. and entered Wilhelmshaven on September 30, 1939 at 8:55 p.m. No ships were sunk or damaged during this four-day expedition in the North Sea .

Third patrol

The boat left Kiel on November 15, 1939 at 1:58 a.m. and returned there on November 24, 1939 at 9:02 p.m. On this ten-day expedition off the British east coast, two ships of 845 GRT were sunk.

  • November 18, 1939: Sinking of the British steamer Parkhill (500 GRT) ( location ) by a G7e torpedo . He had 449 tons of coal loaded and was on his way from Blyth to Kirkwall . It was a total loss with nine dead.
  • November 18, 1939: sinking of the British steamer Wigmore (345 GRT).

Fourth patrol

The boat left Wilhelmshaven on December 16, 1939 at 12:08 p.m. and entered Kiel on December 24, 1939 at 5:43 a.m. During this nine-day and about 900 nm above and 79.5 nm underwater mining operation off the port of Blyth, nine mines were laid, on which four ships ran aground and sank.

  • December 20, 1939: The Swedish steamer Mars (1,877 GRT) ( Lage ) is sunk by a mine hit. He had loaded wood pulp and was on his way from Köpmanholmen to London . There were seven dead.
  • December 25, 1939: Sinking of the British auxiliary minesweeper HMS Loch Donn (534 GRT) by a mine hit. There were 15 dead.
  • December 28, 1939: sinking of the Danish steamer Hanne (1,080 GRT) ( Lage ) by a mine hit. He was ballasted and was on his way from Copenhagen to Blyth. There were 15 dead.
  • January 28, 1940: The British steamer Eston (1,487 GRT) ( Lage ) is sunk by a mine hit. He was in ballast and was on his way from Hull to Blyth. The ship was a straggler from the coastal convoy FN-81 with eleven ships. It was a total loss with 18 dead.

Fifth patrol

The boat left Kiel on January 15, 1940 at 11:56 p.m. and entered Wilhelmshaven on January 24, 1940 at 3:58 p.m. During this nine-day long and 1,392 nm over and 126.2 nm underwater operation on the British east coast, a ship with 1,328 GRT and a destroyer with 1,475 t were sunk.

  • January 21, 1940: Sinking of the British destroyer HMS Exmouth (1,475 t) ( location ) by a G7e torpedo. It was a total loss with 189 dead.
  • January 21, 1940: Sinking of the Norwegian steamer Miranda (1,328 GRT) ( location ) by a G7e torpedo. He had loaded coal and was on his way to Oslo . There were 14 dead and three survivors.

Sixth patrol

The boat left Wilhelmshaven on February 8, 1940 at 12:14 p.m. and returned there on February 25, 1940 at 3:29 p.m. No ships were sunk or damaged during this 17-day and approximately 1,620 nm above and 285.5 nm underwater expedition in the North Sea.

Seventh patrol and whereabouts

U 22 left Wilhelmshaven on March 20, 1940 and has been missing with its entire crew of 27 men since March 23, 1940 in a mine warning area off the western Skagerrak . The position could have been 57 ° 30 ′  N , 9 ° 0 ′  E in the marine grid reference AN 3670.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ubootarchiv.de/ubootwiki/index.php/U_22
  2. ^ According to Paul Herbert Freyer : Death on all seas. A factual report on the history of the fascist submarine war. Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1970, U 22 was sunk on April 25, 1940 near Jammerbugt (Skagerrak), with survivors.

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