Unterseeboot 5 (1935)

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U-5
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IIA
Fieldpost number	M 27 527
Shipyard	Deutsche Werke, Kiel
Yard number	240
Ordered	February 2, 1935
Laid down	February 11, 1935
Launched	August 14, 1935
Commissioned	August 31, 1935
Career
Patrols	2
Flotillas	U-Bootschulflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Rolf Dau Gerhard Glattes Günter Kutschmann Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock Herbert Opitz Friedrich Bothe Karl Friederich Hans-Dieter Mohs Kurt Pressel Hermann Rahn Alfred Radermacher
Successes
No ships sunk or damaged
Fate
Sunk March 19, 1943 west of Pillau. 21 dead and 16 survivors.

Unterseeboot 5 (usually abbreviated to U-5) was a German Type IIA U-boat commissioned August 31, 1935, under Oberleutnant zur See Rolf Dau.

U-5 served mostly as a training boat from 1935 to 1940, but did see two wartime patrols in 1940. She was transferred to the 21. Unterseebootsflottille on July 1, 1940.

[edit] Fate

U-5 sank March 19, 1943 in a diving accident west of Pillau. 16 of the 37-man crew survived.

[edit] References

• Sharpe, Peter, U-Boat Fact File, Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.

[edit] External links

• uboat.net webpage for U-5
• ubootwaffe.net webpage for U-5

See Also: List of U-boats

For other submarines with this designation, see: Unterseeboot 5