Unterseeboot 5 (1935)

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Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	U-5
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Deutsche Werke, Kiel, yard 240
Laid down:	February 11, 1935
Launched:	August 14, 1935
Commissioned:	August 31, 1935
Fate:	Sunk March 19, 1943 west of Pillau. 21 dead and 16 survivors.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat
Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine:' U-Bootschulflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 27 527
Commanders	Rolf Dau Gerhard Glattes Günter Kutschmann Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock Herbert Opitz Friedrich Bothe Karl Friederich Hans-Dieter Mohs Kurt Pressel Hermann Rahn Alfred Radermacher
Operations	2
Victories	No ships sunk or damaged

Unterseeboot 5 (usually abbreviated to U-5) was a German Type IIA U-boat commissioned August 31, 1935, under Oberleutnant zur See Rolf Dau.

U-5 served mostly as a training boat from 1935 to 1940, but did see two wartime patrols in 1940. She was transferred to the 21. Unterseebootsflottille on July 1, 1940.

[edit] Fate

U-5 sank March 19, 1943 in a diving accident west of Pillau. 16 of the 37-man crew survived.

[edit] References

• Sharpe, Peter, U-Boat Fact File, Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.

[edit] External links

• uboat.net webpage for U-5
• ubootwaffe.net webpage for U-5

See Also: List of U-boats

For other submarines with this designation, see: Unterseeboot 5

Coordinates: 54°40′N 19°45′E / 54.667, 19.75