Unterseeboot 5 (1910)

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U-5
Country German Empire
Branch Kaiserliche Marine
Shipyard Germaniawerft, Kiel
Ordered April 8, 1908
Laid down August 24, 1908
Launched January 8, 1910
Commissioned July 2, 1910
Career
Patrols 2
Flotillas I Flottille
Commanders Johannes Lemmer
Successes
No ships sunk or damaged
Fate
Sunk December 18, 1914. 29 dead.

Unterseeboot 2 (also known as U-2) was a German U-boat built for the Kaiserliche Marine. She was commissioned July 2, 1910 in Germaniawerft in Kiel. She served in World War I under the command of Johannes Lemmer, with no recorded sinkings of enemy ships on two patrols. She was destroyed in an accident off the Belgian coast December 18, 1914, with all hands lost.

[edit] References

  • Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X

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See also: List of U-boats

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German Gasoline-powered submarines (Unterseeboot)
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