Unterseeboot 50 (1939)

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Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	U-50
Ordered:	November 21, 1936
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 585
Laid down:	November 3, 1938
Launched:	November 1, 1939
Commissioned:	December 12, 1939
Fate:	Sunk April 6, 1940 in the North Sea north of the Terschelling. 44 dead.
Class and type:	Type VII U-boat
Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 7. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 00 375
Commanders	Max-Hermann Bauer
Operations	2
Victories	4 ships sunk for a total of 16.089 gross register tons (GRT)

Unterseeboot 50 or U-50 was a German Type VIIB U-boat used during World War II. It was commissioned on December 12, 1939 by Kapitänleutnant Max-Hermann Bauer, who was the sole commander of the ship. In its short career it conducted only two patrols, both serving 7. Unterseebootsflottille. In this time it succeeded in sinking four ships.

[edit] Fate

U-50 was hit by mines on April 6, 1940 in the North Sea north of the Terschelling. Its exact position is not known but probably near 51°14′N, 05°07′E. All 44 sailors were killed.

Mines laid down by Allied destroyers HMS Express, HMS Esk, HMS Icarus and HMS Impulsive in the North Sea on March 3, 1940 were probably responsible for the destruction of several U-boats on their inbound or return journey.

[edit] See also

• List of shipwrecks in 1940

[edit] References

• uboat.net webpage for U-50
• ubootwaffe.net webpage about U-50
• u-boot-archiv.de webpage for U-50