German submarine U-5 (1935)
II A
M- 27527
German works, Kiel
February 2, 1935
240
February 11, 1935
August 14, 1935
August 31, 1935
- August 31, 1935 - September 27, 1936 Oblt.z.S. Rolf Dau
- October 1, 1936 - February 2, 1938 Oblt.z.S. Gerhard Straight
- February 3, 1938 - December 4, 1939 Kptlt Günter Kutschmann
- December 5, 1939 - August 11, 1940 Kptlt Heinrich Lehmann- Willenbrock
- August 12, 1940 - March 27, 1941 Oblt.z.S. Herbert Opitz
- March 28, 1941 - January 6, 1942 Oblt.z.S. Frederick Bothe
- January 7, 1942 - March 23, 1942 Oblt.z.S. Karl Friederich
- March 26, 1942 - May 1942 Oblt.z.S. Hans -Dieter Mohs
- May 1942 - November 9, 1942 Kptlt Kurt Pressel
- November 10, 1942 - March 19, 1943 Lt.z.S. Hermann Rahn
- March 19, 1943 Lt.z.S. Alfred Radermacher
2 patrols
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U 5 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 at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel. The keel was laid on February 11, 1935, the launching on 14 August 1935 to the putting under Lieutenant Rolf Dau on 31 August 1935.
After his entry into the boat belonged to September 1939 as a school boat to school Association of Metro school or submarine Schulflottille. During the attack on Poland in September 1939, it served as a front boat, only to serve again until February 1940 as the school boat at the submarine Schulflottille. When companies Weserübung - the occupation of Norway - it was re- used from March 1940 to April 1940 as a front boat. Then it returned to the submarine Schulflottille in Neustadt back, which was then renamed, moved to 21 U- Flotilla on 1 July 1940 after pillau. The boat went on March 19, 1943 in a diving accident west of pillau lost.
U 5 made two patrols on which it sank no ships.
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First patrol
The boat was launched on August 24, 1939 at 4:30 clock of Neustadt, and on September 8, 1939 in Kiel. In these sixteen -day operation in the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat no ships were sunk or damaged. Ships of the Polish Navy, which expired after the beginning of the Polish campaign to the United Kingdom should be attacked by U 5 and other submarines when passing the Baltic Approaches.
Second patrol
The boat was launched on April 4, 1940 at 12:27 Clock of Wilhelmshaven on the company Weserübung and on April 19, 1940 at 11:48 clock back there one. On this lasting fifteen days and 1042.4 nm and 261.8 nm over under water long before things Lindesnes no ships were sunk or damaged.
Whereabouts
U 5 was as a school boat to an end as a result of a diving accident in the Baltic Sea west of pillau. It sank on 19 March 1943, the position 54 ° 40 'N, 19 ° 45' O54.66666666666719.75 in the marine grid square AO 9598th There were 21 dead and 16 survivors.