German submarine U-2 (1935)
II A
M- 27610
German works, Kiel
February 2, 1935
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February 11, 1935
July 1, 1935
July 25, 1935
- July 25, 1935 - September 30, 1936 Oblt.z.S. Hermann Michahelles
- October 1, 1936 - January 31, 1938 Kptlt Heinrich Love
- January 31, 1938 - March 16, 1939 Kptlt Herbert Schultze
- March 17, 1939 - June 7, 1940 Kptlt Helmut Rosenbaum
- June 7, 1940 - August 5, 1940 Oblt.z.S. Hans Heidt man
- August 6, 1940 - October 1941 Kptlt Georg von Wilamowitz- Moellendorf
- October 1941 - May 15, 1942 Oblt.z.S. Karl Kölzer
- May 16, 1942 - November 19, 1942 Oblt.z.S. Werner Schwaff
- November 20, 1942 - December 12, 1943 Oblt.z.S. Helmut Herglotz
- December 13, 1943 - April 8, 1944 Oblt.z.S. Wolfgang Schwarzkopf
2 patrols
No
U 2 was a German U- boat of the type II A, which was used in World War II by the Kriegsmarine.
History
The construction contract for the boat was awarded on February 2, 1935, the German art, Kiel. The keel was laid on February 11, 1935, the launching on July 1, 1935 to the putting under Lieutenant Hermann Michahelles on 25 July 1935.
The boat was used from July 1935 to August 1939 as a school boat in the Education Association of the U- school or submarine Schulflottille. In the invasion of Norway ( company Weserübung ) it served from March 1940 to April 1940 as a front boat, but was then reinstated until April 8, 1944 as a school boat at the submarine school flotilla, which then From July 1940, renamed 21 U- flotilla was stationed in pillau.
Use statistics
The boat made two patrols where no ships were sunk. The first U 2 was launched on March 15, 1940 in Kiel, and on March 29, 1940 there again one. The trip was a lasting fifteen days and 1185.5 nm and 248.5 nm under water long before things southern Norway. Skip to second the boat Weserübung ran on 4 April 1940 to Wilhelmshaven on the company and on April 15, 1940 there again one.
Whereabouts
U 2 fell on April 8, 1944 in the Baltic Sea west of pillau after a collision with the trawler Helmi Söhle. There were 17 dead and 18 survivors. The boat was lifted on April 9, decommissioned and cannibalized in pillau in the sea channel.