Unterseeboot 18 (1936)

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Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	U-18
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 548
Laid down:	July 10, 1935
Launched:	December 7, 1935
Commissioned:	January 4, 1936
Fate:	Scuttled August 25, 1944 at Constanţa in the Black Sea.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat
Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 1. Unterseebootsflottille 3. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 23 452
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
Operations	14
Victories	2 ships sunk for a total of 1,500 gross register tons (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

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.

Contents 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 Constanţa 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).

[edit] Service history

• 4 Jan 1936 - 20 Nov 1936: 1st Flottille (front boat)
• 30 Sep 1937 - 1 Aug 1939: 3rd Flottille (front boat)
• 1 Sep 1939 - 1 Nov 1939: 3rd Flottille (front boat)
• 1 Nov 1939 - 1 Mar 1940: U-Ausbildungsflottille (front boat)
• 1 Apr 1940 - 1 Jun 1940: U-Ausbildungsflottille (training)
• 1 Jul 1940 - 17 Dec 1940: 24th Flottille (training)
• 6 May 1943 - 25 Aug 1944: 30th Flottille (front boat)

[edit] Commanders

• Hans Pauckstadt, 4 Jan 1936 - 20 Nov 1936
• Kptlt. Heinz Beduhn, 30 Sep 1937 - 31 Oct 1937
• Kptlt. Max-Hermann Bauer, 1 Nov 1937 - 24 Nov 1939
• Oblt. Ernst Mengersen (Knights Cross), 24 Nov 1939 - 2 Sep 1940
• Kptlt. Hans-Heinz Linder, 3 Sep 1940 - 17 Dec 1940
• Kptlt. Ernst Vogelsang, 18 Dec 1940 - 6 May 1941
• Oblt. Hans-Achim von Rosenberg-Gruszcynski, 7 May 1941 - 31 May 1942
• Oblt. Friedrich-Wilhelm Wissmann, 1 Jun 1942 - 18 Aug 1942
• Oblt. Karl Fleige (Knights Cross), 3 Dec 1942 - 25 Aug 1944
• Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Bartsch, 2 May 1944 - 25 May 1944
• Oblt. Rudolf Arendt, 25 May 1944 - 7 Jun 1944
• Oblt. Friedrich Baumgärtel, 22 Dec 1944 - 6 Feb 1945

[edit] References

• U-18. uboat.net. Retrieved on 2007-01-20.

• U-18. U-Boat Operations. Kriegsmarine and U-Boat history, ubootwaffe.net. Retrieved on 2007-01-20.

• U-18. u-boot-archiv.de. Kriegsmarine and U-Boat history, u-boot-archiv.de. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.

Coordinates: 44°12′N 28°41′E / 44.2, 28.683