U 35 (Navy)
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| Type : | VII A |
| Field Post Number : | M 21 203 |
| Shipyard: | Germania shipyard , Kiel |
| Construction contract: | March 25, 1935 |
| Build number: | 558 |
| Keel laying: | March 2, 1936 |
| Launch: | September 24, 1936 |
| Commissioning: | November 3, 1936 |
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| Calls: | 2 patrols |
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4 ships (7850 GRT) |
| Whereabouts: | self-sunk after an attack on November 29, 1939 |
U 35 was a German submarine of type VII A , 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 March 25, 1935 . The keel was laid on March 2, 1936, the launch on September 24, 1936, the commissioning under Lieutenant Klaus Ewerth on November 3, 1936.
Until it was sunk on November 29, 1939, the boat belonged to the “Saltzwedel” submarine flotilla in Wilhelmshaven .
From January 1937 to February 1937 the boat was on a fleet visit in Ponta Delgada in the Azores . From April 1937 to May 1937, U 35 took over maritime surveillance off Arosa ( Spanish Civil War ).
On April 10, 1938, the boat was used as a polling station for around 200 Austrians when they voted on the connection of Austria to the German Reich . From December 1938 to January 1939 the boat was on a visit to the fleet in Spain and from April 1939 to May 1939 it was in the Atlantic for diving and escorting exercises with U 34 and U 29 .
Before the war, U 35 was involved in several accidents. It was rammed by a freighter in 1937, overrun by the ironclad Admiral Graf Spee in 1938 and badly damaged in 1939 when an airplane crashed onto the tower.
U 35 undertook three patrols during the Second World War , during which it sank four ships with a total tonnage of 7850 GRT .
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Last pre-war trip
The boat left Memel on August 27, 1939 at 3:40 p.m. and entered Kiel on September 1, 1939 at 4:35 p.m. During this five-day operation to monitor traffic in the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Danzig in preparation for the German invasion of Poland on the morning of September 1, no ships were sunk or damaged.
First patrol
The boat left Wilhelmshaven on September 9, 1939 at 12:00 and returned there on October 12, 1939. During this 33-day expedition to the North Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay , four ships with 7,850 GRT were sunk and one ship with 6,014 GRT was damaged.
- September 18, 1939: Sinking of the British fishing liner Arlita (326 GRT) ( location ) by artillery fire. He came from Fleetwood and was on his way to fish . There were no dead.
- September 18, 1939: sinking of the British fishing liner Lord Minto (295 GRT) ( location ) by artillery. He came from Fleetwood and was on his way to catch a fish. There were no dead.
- September 21, 1939: Damage to the British tanker Teakwood (6,014 GRT) by a torpedo . The ship was in convoy OA-7. There was one dead.
- October 1, 1939: sinking of the Belgian steamer Suzon (2,239 GRT) ( location ) by a torpedo. He had loaded 2,400 tons of wood and was on the way from Bordeaux to Cardiff . There were no deaths, 20 survivors
- October 3, 1939: sinking of the Greek steamer Diamantis (4,990 GRT) ( location ) by a G7e torpedo. He had loaded 7700 tons of manganese ore and was on the way from Pepel ( Sierra Leone ) to Barrow . There were no deaths, 28 survivors.
After the sinking of the steamer, U 35 took the 28-man crew on board and dropped them on land 24 hours later, in violation of Irish neutrality, near the town of Dingle in Ventry . This action, which was unusual in wartime, made international headlines, earned the boat and crew great respect and was also to make itself felt during the crew's later imprisonment. For example, when the seamen were held captive in the Tower of London , she visited Lord Mountbatten , then the commander of the British destroyer flotilla. In 2009 a memorial was erected to the boat in Ventry for this act.
Second patrol
The boat left Wilhelmshaven on November 18, 1939. No ships were sunk or damaged on this ten-day venture in the North Atlantic and Orkney .
On November 29, 1939 U 35 was discovered by the British destroyer HMS Icarus on the surface of the water, whereupon it immediately dived. The destroyer was because of his defective ASDIC but -Ortungssystems hours his depth charges not throw accurately enough and then called the destroyer HMS Kingston and HMS Kashmir cause. U 35 was forced to surface after Kapitänleutnant Werner Lott the self-absorption commanded. The entire crew was saved by the British destroyers.
Whereabouts
The wreck of the boat was in the course in July 1986 to Norwegian oil wells in 190 meters deep at the position 60 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 47' O detected and filmed.
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