| 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-Boat Training Flotilla 21st U-boat Flotilla |
| 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 |
German submarine U-5 was a Type IIA U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine, 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 21st U-boat Flotilla on July 1, 1940.
U-5 sank March 19, 1943 in a diving accident west of Pillau. 16 of the 37-man crew survived.
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