U 8 (Navy)

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U 8 (Kriegsmarine)
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Type : II B
Field Post Number : M 06 994
Shipyard: Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: July 20, 1934
Build number: 542
Keel laying: March 25, 1935
Launch: July 16, 1935
Commissioning: August 5, 1935
Commanders:
  • August 13, 1935 - November 3, 1936
    First Lieutenant at Sea . Harald Grosse
  • June 24, 1938 - September 5, 1939
    Oblt.zS Georg Peters
  • September 2, 1938 - October 29, 1938
    Oblt.zS Otto Schuhart (i. V.)
  • September 6, 1939 - October 13, 1939
    Oblt.zS Wolf-Harro Stiebler
  • October 14, 1939 - November 30, 1939
    Lieutenant Commander . Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
  • December 1, 1939 - May 4, 1940
    Kptlt. Georg-Heinz Michel
  • May 5, 1940 - September 12, 1940
    Kptlt.Eitel -Friedrich Kentrat
  • June 5, 1940 - June 9, 1940
    Oblt.zS Heinz Stein (i. V.)
  • June 10, 1940 - July 6, 1940
    Oblt.zS Walter Kell (i. V.)
  • July 7, 1940 - July 28, 1940
    Oblt.zS Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche
  • September 13, 1940 - December 17, 1940
    Oblt.zS Walter Kell
  • December 18, 1940 - April 25, 1941
    Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn
  • April 26, 1941 - May 22, 1941
    Kptlt. Ulrich Borcherdt
  • May 23, 1941 - July 31, 1941
    Oblt.zS Rolf Steinhaus
  • August 1, 1941 - May 31, 1942
    Oblt.zS Horst Deckert
  • June 1, 1942 - March 15, 1943
    Kptlt. Rudolf Hoffmann
  • March 16, 1943 - May 12, 1944
    Oblt.zS Alfred Werner
  • May 13, 1944 - November 24, 1944
    Oblt.zS Jürgen Iversen
  • November 25, 1944 - March 31, 1945
    Oblt.zS Jürgen Kriegshammer
Calls: 1 patrol
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: sunk in Wilhelmshaven on May 2, 1945 ( rainbow order )

U 8 was a German submarine from Type II B , which in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the Germania shipyard in Kiel on July 20, 1934 . The keel was laid on March 25, 1935, the launch on July 16, 1935. The commissioning under Lieutenant Harald Grosse finally took place on August 5, 1935.

After commissioning, the boat belonged to the “Weddigen” submarine flotilla in Kiel from 1936 to 1937 . From October 1937 it was the reserve boat of the submarine flotilla "Lohs" and until January 3, 1940 the school boat of the submarine school flotilla in Neustadt . Then it was used from January 4, 1940 to April 12, 1940 in the U-Defense School. From April 13, 1940 to June 30, 1940 it served as a school and front boat in the 1st U-Flotilla in Kiel. Then it was used from July 1, 1940 to December 17, 1940 as a school boat in the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel , before it was commanded as a school boat for the 22nd U-Flotilla to Gotenhafen on December 18, 1940 . During the evacuation of the bases in front of the advancing Red Army, U 8 left Pillau on January 26, 1945 and moved to Wilhelmshaven .

U 8 undertook a during his service patrol on which it sink any ships or could cause damage.

Mission history

The boat left Kiel on May 19, 1940 at 7:30 p.m. for its first and only patrol and returned there on June 7, 1940 at 10:25 p.m. After marching through the Kiel Canal and being escorted to Brunsbüttel , the boat operated in the North Sea and the North Atlantic . No ships were sunk or damaged during this 19-day-long and approximately 1,700 nm above and 242 nm underwater undertaking.

Whereabouts

U 8 was self- sunk on May 2, 1945 in the western chamber of the Raederschleuse in Wilhelmshaven according to the long-standing rainbow order (position: 53 ° 31 '  N , 8 ° 10'  E ) and later scrapped.

None of the crew members were killed during the boat's long service life.

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