Unterseeboot 18 (1936)

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U-18
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IIB
Fieldpost number	M 23 452
Shipyard	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number	548
Ordered	February 2, 1935
Laid down	July 10, 1935
Launched	December 7, 1935
Commissioned	January 4, 1936
Career
Patrols	14
Flotillas	1. Unterseebootsflottille 3. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Hans Pauckstadt Heinz Beduhn Max-Hermann Bauer Ernst Mengersen Hans-Heinz Linder Ernst Vogelsang Hans-Achim von Rosenberg-Gruszcynski Friedrich-Wilhelm Wissmann Karl Fleige Hans-Jürgen Bartsch Rudolf Arendt Friedrich Baumgärtel
Successes
2 ships sunk for a total of 1.500 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 400 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 7.745 GRT 1 warship damaged for a total of 56 tons
Fate
Scuttled August 25, 1944 at Konstanza in the Black Sea.

Unterseeboot 18 (U-18) was a Type IIB German U-boat that was in use during World War II. It was laid down July 10, 1935 and commissioned on January 4, 1936. It served under many unterseebootsflotilles (flotillas) during its service.

1 Fate
2 Service history
3 Commanders
4 References

[edit] Fate

While a training boat, U-18 sank at 0954 hrs on November 20, 1936 in Lübeck Bay, after a collision with T-156. 8 died and 12 survived. It was raised on November 28, 1936. It returned service on September 30, 1937.

On August 20, 1944, in a Soviet air raid on the Romanian harbor of Konstanza in the Black Sea, U-18 was damaged and as a results deemed not seaworthy and was scuttled.

The boat was raised by the USSR in late 1944. It was sunk by the Soviet submarine M-120 on May 26, 1947 off Sevastopol (also sunk that day was the former U-24).