U 6 (Navy)
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| Type : | II A |
| Field Post Number : | M-00 130 |
| Shipyard: | German works , Kiel |
| Construction contract: | February 2, 1935 |
| Build number: | 241 |
| Keel laying: | February 11, 1935 |
| Launch: | August 21, 1935 |
| Commissioning: | September 7, 1935 |
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| Calls: | 2 patrols |
| Sinkings: |
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| Whereabouts: | self-sunk on March 29, 1945 |
U 6 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 21, 1935, and commissioning under Lieutenant Ludwig Mathes on September 7, 1935.
After 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 to April 1940. Then it returned to the U-Boat School Flotilla in Neustadt , which - renamed the 21st U-Flotilla - was moved to Pillau on July 1, 1940 .
U 6 was one of the first boats of the Third Reich Navy and, like all of its sister boats, was only able to operate relatively close to the coast. After the outbreak of the war it quickly became clear that U 6 was not able to keep up with the stronger and faster submarines of other navies, and so it was no longer sent on patrol in the Baltic Sea and only at the beginning After the invasion of Norway and Denmark, she was used as a front boat for a short time in support of this "Weser exercise" .
During his missions in the Baltic Sea, officer candidates for submarine weapons were trained on U 6 . A few patrols took it to Soviet territorial waters as part of Operation Barbarossa - the German attack on the Soviet Union - but the boat, unlike several of its sister boats, was never involved in combat. In the summer of 1944, when the fuel and supply supplies were running low and the reputation of the Type II boats continued to decline due to a few fatal accidents, U 6 was decommissioned and stationed in Gotenhafen with a minimal crew. It stayed there until it was sunk at its berth by a demolition squad in March 1945 to prevent it from being handed over to the Soviet troops.
U 6 undertook two enemy voyages on which it could not sink any ships.
Mission history
First patrol
The boat left Neustadt on August 30, 1939 at 4:30 a.m. and entered Kiel on September 13, 1939 . No ships were sunk or damaged on this fifteen-day venture during the attack on Poland in the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat .
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 19, 1940 at 6:15 p.m. No ships were sunk or damaged on this 16-day and approximately 1,500 nm long expedition off Lindesnes .
Whereabouts
U 6 was decommissioned on August 7, 1944 in Gotenhafen and cannibalized. It was captured by Soviet troops on March 29, 1945 and probably scrapped. The last known location was 54 ° 32 ' N , 18 ° 33' O .
Web links
- U 6 at uboat.net (engl.)
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