Unterseeboot 20 (1936)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-20
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number:	550
Way number:	M 29 241
Laid down:	August 1, 1935
Launched:	January 14, 1936
Commissioned:	February 1, 1936
Fate:	Scuttled September 10, 1944 off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea.
General characteristics
Type:	IIB

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine 1. Unterseebootsflottille 3. Unterseebootsflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Hans Eckermann Karl-Heinz Moehle Harro von Klot-Heydenfeldt Heinrich Driver Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche Ottokar Arnold Paulshen Herbert Schauenburg Wolfgang Sträter Kurt Nölke Clemens Schöler Karl Grafen
Operations	17 patrols
Victories	13 ships sunk for a total of 30.067 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 1.846 GRT 2 ships a total loss for a total of 8.446 GRT

Unterseeboot 20, or more commonly U-20 was a German Type IIB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down August 1, 1935 by Germaniawerft of Kiel. She was commissioned on February 1, 1936. During the World War II, she conducted operations against enemy shipping.

U-20 went on 17 patrols, sinking 16 ships totalling 39,637 tons and damaging one more of 1,846 tons.

[edit] Fate

On June 26, 1943, U-20 was attacked with depth charges in the Black Sea by a convoy escort. The damage was such that she had to return to base. She was scuttled on September 10, 1944 in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey.

On February 3, 2008, The Telegraph reported that U-20 had been discovered by Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer, in 80 feet of water off the coast of the Turkish city of Zonguldak. [1]