U 23 (Bundeswehr)

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U 23 (S 172) with U 26 (S 175) in the front and U 30 (S 179) in the back
Type :	Submarine class 206
Shipyard:	Rhein-Stahl-Nordseewerke , Emden
Build number:	450
Commissioning:	May 2nd 1975
Decommissioning:	March 31, 2011
Length:	48.60 m
Width:	4.60 m
Draft:	4.00 m
Displacement:	450 ts / 520 m³ (above water)
Drive:	2 × 440 kW MTU-DG, 1 × 1100 kW EM, 3 × 96 battery cells
Speed:	10 kn, submerged: 17 kn
Armament:	8 BTR (wire-guided torpedo DM2A3) mine belt
Crew:	25 men, of them 6 officers 7 Portepee NCOs 12 NCOs
Whereabouts:	as ARC Intrépido (S-21) in the service of the Navy of Colombia

U 23 ( NATO designation S 172) was a submarine of the submarine class 206 of the German Navy and was put into service on May 2, 1975 and was subordinate to the 3rd submarine squadron. From August 1987 to September 1989, it was converted to class 206 A. Like all submarines, it then belonged to the 1st submarine squadron of the operational flotilla 1 .

history

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  U 23

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  U 23 close-up

The boat covered a total of 180,376.7 nautical miles by 2005, of which 68,289.0 nautical miles were submerged.

The two pictures show U 23 on June 19, 2006 on the occasion of the Kiel Week in the Kiel Fjord on the way to the Tirpitzhafen . On March 31, 2011, U 23 was officially decommissioned.

Since August 28, 2012, "ex-U23" has been serving the Navy of Colombia as ARC Intrépido (S-21) . In 2015, the submarine will also be used in the Gulf of Urabá to combat drug smuggling.

Commanders

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
01	Lieutenant Weigel	May 2nd 1975	1976
02	Lieutenant Ullrich	1976	1977
03	Corvette Captain Hermann	1977	1983
04th	Lieutenant Randig	1983	1985
05	Lieutenant Weber	1985	1987
06th	Corvette Captain Brosch	1987	1991
07th	Lieutenant Forthmann	1991	1993
08th	Lieutenant E. Müller	1993	1995
09	Lieutenant Waldmann	1996	1997
10	Lieutenant Franz	1997	March 31, 2000
11	Lieutenant Schütz	July 5, 2000	Sep 30 2002
12	Lieutenant Stuck	Sep 30 2002	June 18, 2004
13	Lieutenant Lehmann	June 18, 2004	June 2007
14th	Captain Hansen	June 2007	Jan. 16, 2009
15th	Lieutenant Cordes	Jan. 16, 2009	Sep 24 2010

Web links

• Submarine class 206A . marine.de
• Ubootkameradschaft U23 e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Colombia: Police track down drug submarine . In: Lahrer Zeitung , December 18, 2015