| German submarine U-9 (1935) | |
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 U-9 in 1936, note the submarine's number on the hull which was painted out in wartime | |
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
| Name: | U-9 |
| Ordered: | 20 July 1934 |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 543 |
| Laid down: | 8 April 1935 |
| Launched: | 30 July 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 21 August 1935 |
| Fate: | Sunk 24 August 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea in a Soviet air raid |
| Class & type: | Type II U-boat |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| 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: |
Krvkpt. Hans-Günther Looff Kptlt. Werner von Schmidt Kptlt. Ludwig Mathes Oblt. Max-Martin Schulte Oblt. Wolfgang Lüth Oblt. Wolfgang Kaufmann Oblt. Joachim Deecke Kptlt. Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Weichert Oblt. Heinrich Klapdor Oblt. Martin Landt-Hayen Kptlt. Klaus Petersen |
| Operations: | 19 |
| Victories: |
Seven ships sunk for a total of 16,669 gross register tons (GRT) One warship of 552 tons sunk One warship of 412 tons damaged |
The German submarine U-9 was a Type IIB U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on 8 February 1935, by Germaniawerft in Kiel as 'werk' 543. She was launched on 30 July 1935 and commissioned on 21 August, with Korvettenkapitän 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.
Fate[]
To serve in the 30th U-boat Flotilla, the submarine was transported overland and along the Danube to the Black Sea. At 10:30hrs on 20 August 1944, at Konstanza in Rumania in position 44°12′N 28°41′E / 44.2°N 28.683°E, U-9 was sunk by bombs from Soviet aircraft. The Soviets raised the boat and brought her into Mykolaiv in 1945. She was repaired and commissioned into the Soviet Navy as TS-16, but did not perform well and was broken up on 12 December 1946.
Summary of raiding history[]
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 January 1940 | Flandria |  Sweden |
1,179 | Sunk |
| 19 January 1940 | Patria | Sweden |
1,188 | Sunk |
| 11 February 1940 | Linda |  Estonia |
1,213 | Sunk |
| 4 May 1940 | San Tiburcio |  United Kingdom |
5,995 | Sunk (mine) |
| 9 May 1940 | Doris |  French Navy |
552 | Sunk |
| 11 May 1940 | Tringa | United Kingdom |
1,930 | Sunk |
| 11 May 1940 | Viiu | Estonia |
1,908 | Sunk |
| 23 May 1940 | Sigurd Faulbaum |  Belgium |
3,256 | Sunk |
| 11 May 1944 | Shtorm |  Soviet Union |
412 | Damaged |
References[]
- Sharpe, Peter, U-Boat Fact File, Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
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