Unterseeboot 10 (1935)

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U-10
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IIB
Fieldpost number	M 04 324
Shipyard	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number	544
Ordered	July 20, 1934
Laid down	April 22, 1935
Launched	August 13, 1935
Commissioned	September 9, 1935
Career
Patrols	5
Flotillas	U-Bootschulflottille 1. Unterseebootsflottille 3. Unterseebootsflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Heinz Scheringer Werner Scheer Heinz Beduhn Hannes Weingärtner Hans-Rudolf Rösing Herbert Sohler Kurt von Gossler Georg-Wilhelm Schulz Günther Lorentz Joachim Preuss Rolf Mützelburg Wolf-Rüdiger von Rabenau Kurt Ruwiedel Hans Karpf Christian-Brandt Coester Wolfgang Strenger Kurt Ahlers
Successes
2 ships sunk for a total of 6.356 GRT
Fate
Stricken August 1, 1944 at Danzig.

Unterseeboot 10 (also known as U-10) was a German U-boat built before World War II for service in the Kriegsmarine. As she was one of the first batch of boats built following the reunuciation of the Treaty of Versailles, she was a Type II U-boat, and thus capable of only coastal and short cruising work. This led to her being resigned to training duties after the Norwegian Campaign of 1940 together with many of her sister boats.

During the war U-10 sank two vessels:

• The Norwegian 1,819 ton Kvernaas, on February 17 1940.
• The Dutch 4,537 ton Ameland, on February 18 1940.

After training duties in almost 5 years she was stricken August 1, 1944 at Danzig and broken up.

[edit] References

• uboat.net webpage about U-10
• ubootwaffe.net webpage for U-10

See Also: List of U-boats