U 2 (ship, 1935)

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U 2 (ship, 1935)
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Type : II A
Field Post Number : M-27 610
Shipyard: German works , Kiel
Construction contract: February 2, 1935
Build number: 237
Keel laying: February 11, 1935
Launch: July 1, 1935
Commissioning: July 25, 1935
Commanders:
  • July 25, 1935 - September 30, 1936
    Oberleutnant zur See Hermann Michahelles
  • October 1, 1936 - January 31, 1938
    Lieutenant Heinrich Liebe
  • January 31, 1938 - March 16, 1939
    First Lieutenant Herbert Schultze
  • March 17, 1939 - June 7, 1940
    First Lieutenant Helmut Rosenbaum (later Lieutenant Captain)
  • June 7, 1940 - August 5, 1940
    Oberleutnant zur See Hans Heidtmann
  • August 6, 1940 - October 14, 1941
    Lieutenant Georg von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf
  • October 14, 1941 - May 15, 1942
    First Lieutenant Karl Koelzer
  • May 16, 1942 - November 19, 1942
    First Lieutenant Werner Schwaff
  • November 20, 1942 - December 12, 1943
    Leutnant zur See Helmut Herglotz (later Oberleutnant zur See)
  • December 13, 1943 - April 8, 1944
    First Lieutenant Wolfgang Schwarzkopf
Calls: 2 patrols
Sinkings:

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Whereabouts: west Pillau after collision with trawler on April 8, 1944 Helmi Söhle dropped

U2 was a German submarine from type II A , which in the Second World War by the Navy was used.

history

The building contract for the boat was awarded to Deutsche Werke , Kiel , on February 2, 1935 . The keel was laid on February 11, 1935, the launch on July 1, 1935, the commissioning under Lieutenant Hermann Michahelles on July 25, 1935.

The boat was used from July 1935 to August 1939 as a school boat in the school association of the U-Schule or the U-boat school flotilla. During the invasion of Norway ( Operation Weser Exercise ) it was used as a front boat from March 1940 to April 1940, but was then used again as a school boat for the U-boat school flotilla until April 8, 1944, when it was sunk, which then began in July 1940 renamed 21st U-Flotilla stationed in Pillau .

Use statistics

First patrol

The boat left Kiel on March 15, 1940 at 8:00 a.m.   and entered Brunsbüttel  the same day at 4:30 p.m.  to install the ice protection. The crew stayed overnight in Brunsbüttel and left there at 8:00 a.m. the next day. U 2  was launched on 29 March 1940 at 18:15 in  Wilhelmshaven  one. No ships were sunk or damaged during this 13-day and 1,185.5 nm over and 248.5 nm underwater expedition in the  North Sea off Lindesnes . On March 26, 1940, it received an emergency call from  U21 , who  ran aground off the island of Odknuppen at the entrance to the Odfjord in  Norway and was unable to escape on its own. However, this was ignored because other boats were closer.

Second patrol

The boat left Wilhelmshaven on April 4, 1940 at 12:00 p.m. for the  Weser Exercise company  and returned there on April 15, 1940 at 12:20 p.m. No ships were sunk or damaged during this 11-day and 991 nm over and 212 nm underwater expedition in the North Sea off Lindesnes. On April 5, 1940, the British submarine HMS Unity (N 66) shot three torpedoes at the boat, all of which missed. On April 10, it was attacked by a Wellington , causing no damage. The next day, damage to the depth rudder was found during a dive, whereupon the patrol was immediately broken off and the march back under water began.

Whereabouts

U 2 sank on April 8, 1944 at 7.15 am in the Baltic Sea west of Pillau after a collision with the German fishing cutter Helmi Söhle . There were 17 dead and 18 survivors. Wilhelm Hennis was among the survivors . The boat was lifted on April 9, 1944, decommissioned and cannibalized in the sea canal in Pillau.

Web links

  • U 2 in the uboat.net database(English)

Individual evidence

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