Unterseeboot 19 (1936)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-19
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 549
Laid down:	July 20, 1935
Launched:	December 21, 1935
Commissioned:	January 16, 1936
Fate:	Scuttled September 11, 1944 off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea.
Class and type:	IIB

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 1. Unterseebootsflottille 22. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 23 036
Commanders	Viktor Schütze Hans Meckel Wilhelm Müller-Arnecke Joachim Schepke Wilfried Prellberg Peter Lohmeyer Wolfgang Kaufmann Rudolf Schendel Gerhard Litterscheid Hans-Ludwig Gaude Willy Ohlenburg Hubert Verpoorten
Operations	20
Victories	14 ships sunk for a total of 35.430 gross register tons (GRT) 1 warship sunk for a total of 441 tons

Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) was a Type IIB German U-boat that was in use during World War II. Her keel was laid down on July 20, 1935 at the Germaniawerft of Kiel. She was launched on December 21, 1935, and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on January 16, 1936, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Viktor Schütze.

U-19 conducted 20 patrols, sinking 15 ships totalling 35,871 tons. On May 1, 1940, U-19 was withdrawn from combat duty and used for training and as a school boat. On May 1, 1942, she returned to active duty.

[edit] Fate

On September 10, 1944, she was scuttled in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey. U-19 suffered no casualties to any of her crews.

On February 3, 2008, The Telegraph reported that U-20 and U-23 have been discovered by Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer. He thinks he is also close to pinpointing the U-19, thought to lie more than 1,000ft down, three miles from the Turkish city of Zonguldak. [1]