Unterseeboot 3 (1935)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-3
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Deutsche Werke, Kiel, yard 238
Laid down:	February 11, 1935
Launched:	July 19, 1935
Commissioned:	September 6, 1935
Fate:	Stricken August 1, 1944 at Gotenhafen. Scrapped in 1945.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: U-Bootschulflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 01 385
Commanders	Hans Meckel Ernst-Günter Heinicke Joachim Schepke Gerd Schreiber Helmut Franzke Otto von Bülow Hans-Hartwig Trojer Joachim Zander Herbert Zoller Ernst Hartmann Hermann Neumeister
Operations	5
Victories	2 ships sunk for a total of 2.348 gross register tons (GRT)

Unterseeboot 3 or U-3 was a German Type IIA U-boat laid down at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel on February 11, 1935. She was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on August 6, 1936 under the command of Oberleutnant Hans Meckel.

U3 made a total of 5 combat patrols and sank 2 ships while under the command of Joachim Schepke, the Danish vessel Vendia and the Swedish vessel Gun for a total of 2,348 GRT. During April 1940, she was part of the fleet that supported the German invasion of Norway, Operation Weserübung.

As the Type II submarines were too small for combat duty in the Atlantic Ocean she was assigned to the Baltic for training duties with the 21. Unterseebootsflottille, a training outfit.