U 5 (Navy)

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U 5 (Kriegsmarine)
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Type : II A
Field Post Number : M-27 527
Shipyard: German works , Kiel
Construction contract: February 2, 1935
Build number: 240
Keel laying: February 11, 1935
Launch: August 14, 1935
Commissioning: August 31, 1935
Commanders:
  • August 31, 1935 - September 27, 1936
    First Lieutenant Rolf Dau
  • October 1, 1936 - February 2, 1938
    Oblt.zS Gerhard Glattes
  • February 3, 1938 - December 4, 1939
    Lieutenant Günter Kutschmann
  • December 5, 1939 - August 11, 1940
    Kptlt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
  • August 12, 1940 - March 27, 1941
    Oblt.zS Herbert Opitz
  • March 28, 1941 - January 6, 1942
    Oblt.zS Friedrich Bothe
  • January 7, 1942 - March 23, 1942
    Oblt.zS Karl Friederich
  • March 26, 1942 - May 1942
    Oblt.zS Hans-Dieter Mohs
  • May 1942 - November 9, 1942
    Kptlt. Kurt Pressel
  • November 10, 1942 - March 19, 1943
    Lt.zS Hermann Rahn
  • March 19, 1943
    Lt.zS Alfred Radermacher
Calls: 2 patrols
Sinkings:

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Whereabouts: Sunk in a diving accident west of Pillau on March 19, 1943

U 5 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 in Kiel on February 2, 1935 . The keel was laid on February 11, 1935, the launch on August 14, 1935, and commissioning under Lieutenant Rolf Dau on August 31, 1935.

After its commissioning, the boat belonged as a school boat to the school association of the U-Schule or the U-boat school flotilla until September 1939 . During the attack on Poland in September 1939, it was used as a front boat, and then again until February 1940 as a school boat in the submarine school flotilla. At the Weser Exercise Company  - the occupation of Norway  - it was used again as a front boat from March 1940 to April 1940. Then it returned to the U-Boat School Flotilla in Neustadt , which was then renamed the 21st U-Flotilla and relocated to Pillau on July 1, 1940 . The boat was lost on March 19, 1943 in a diving accident west of Pillau.

U 5 undertook two enemy voyages on which it did not sink any ships.

Use statistics

First patrol

The boat left Neustadt on August 24, 1939 at 4:30 a.m. and entered Kiel on September 8, 1939 . No ships were sunk or damaged during this sixteen-day expedition into the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat . Ships of the Polish Navy, which left for Great Britain after the start of the attack on Poland , should be attacked by U 5 and other submarines when passing the Baltic Sea accesses.

Second patrol

The boat left Wilhelmshaven on April 4, 1940 at 12:27 p.m. for the Weser Exercise company and returned there on April 19, 1940 at 11:48 a.m. No ships were sunk or damaged on this fifteen-day and 1,042.4 nm above and 261.8 nm underwater expedition off Lindesnes .

Whereabouts

U 5 found its end as a school boat as a result of a diving accident in the Baltic Sea west of Pillau . It sank on March 19, 1943, the position of 54 ° 40 '  N , 19 ° 45'  O marine-grid square AO 9598th There were 21 deaths and 16 survivors.

Web links

  • U 5 in the uboat.net database(English)