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| Name: | U-9 |
| Ordered: | July 20, 1934 |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 543 |
| Laid down: | April 8, 1935 |
| Launched: | July 30, 1935 |
| Commissioned: | August 21, 1935 |
| Fate: | Sunk August 24, 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea. |
| Class and type: | Type II U-boat |
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| Part of: | Kriegsmarine: 1st U-boat Flotilla 21st U-boat Flotilla 24th U-boat Flotilla 30th U-boat Flotilla |
| Identification codes: | M 13 068 |
| Commanders: | Hans-Günther Looff Werner von Schmidt Ludwig Mathes Max-Martin Schulte Wolfgang Lüth Wolfgang Kaufmann Joachim Deecke Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Weichert Heinrich Klapdor Martin Landt-Hayen Klaus Petersen |
| Operations: | 19 |
| Victories: | 7 ships sunk for a total of 16,669 gross register tons (GRT) 1 warship sunk for a total of 552 tons 1 warship damaged for a total of 412 tons |
German submarine U-9 was a Type IIB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on April 8, 1935 by Germaniawerft in Kiel. She was launched on July 30, 1935 and commissioned on August 21, 1935 with Kapitänleutnant Hans-Günther Looff in command.
U-9 conducted 19 patrols under a series of commanders, including U-boat ace Wolfgang Lüth, sinking eight ships totalling 17,221 tons and damaging another displacing 412 tons. This included the French Sirène class coastal submarine Doris.
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To serve in the 30th U-boat Flotilla, it was transported via land and the Danube to the Black Sea. At 10:30hrs on August 20, 1944 at Constanţa in the Black Sea in position , U-9 was sunk by bombs from Soviet aircraft. In 1945 the Soviets raised the boat and brought it into Mykolaiv. She was repaired and in 1945 was commissioned into the Soviet Navy as TS-16, but did not perform well and was broken up December 12, 1946.
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