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German submarine U-36 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which served during World War II.[1] She was constructed in the earliest days of the U-boat arm at Kiel in 1936, and served in the pre-war Navy in the Baltic Sea and North Sea under Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Klaus Ewerth. Korvettenkapitän (K.Kapt.) Wilhelm Fröhlich took command in October 1938 and continued in the role until the boat was lost.[1]

During her service, U-36 undertook three patrols (1 pre-war and 2 war), but was sunk by a torpedo fired by Шаблон:HMS. She was lost with all hands.

Construction and design

Construction

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U-36 is commissioned, December 1936

U-36 was ordered by the Kriegsmarine on 25 March 1935 as part of the German Plan Z and in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Her keel was laid down in the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen as yard number 559 on 2 March 1936. After about eight months of construction, she was launched on 4 November 1936 and commissioned on 16 December under the command of Kptlt. Klaus Ewerth.[1]

Design

Шаблон:Main Like all Type VIIA submarines, U-36 displaced Шаблон:Convert while surfaced and Шаблон:Convert when submerged. She was Шаблон:Convert in overall length and had a Шаблон:Convert pressure hull. U-36Шаблон:'s propulsion consisted of two MAN 6-cylinder 4-stroke M6V 40/46 diesel engines that totaled Шаблон:Convert. Her maximum rpm was between 470 and 485. The submarine was also equipped with two Brown, Boveri & Cie GG UB 720/8 electric motors that totaled Шаблон:Convert. Their maximum rpm was 322. These engines gave U-36 a total speed of Шаблон:Convert while surfaced and Шаблон:Convert when submerged. This resulted in a range of Шаблон:Convert while traveling at Шаблон:Convert on the surface and Шаблон:Convert at Шаблон:Convert when submerged. The U-boat's test depth was Шаблон:Convert but she could go as deep as Шаблон:Convert without having her hull crushed.Шаблон:Sfn

U-36Шаблон:'s armament consisted of five Шаблон:Convert torpedo tubes (four located in the bow and one in the stern). She could have up to 11 torpedoes on board or 22 TMA or 33 TMB mines. U-36 was also equipped with a 8.8 cm SK C/35 naval gun and had 220 rounds for it stowed on board. Her anti-aircraft defenses consisted of one [[2 cm FlaK 30|Шаблон:Convert]] anti-aircraft gun.Шаблон:Sfn

Service history

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U-36 on a training exercise in 1936

First war patrol

U-36 was at sea when the war broke out, having set out from Wilhelmshaven on 31 August 1939. She arrived in Kiel on 6 September and the following day departed for her first war patrol.[2] She then patrolled the North Sea for three weeks, hoping to catch ships traveling between Britain and Scandinavia carrying war supplies. During this patrol, the boat sank two steamers, Шаблон:SS and Шаблон:SS—one British and the other from neutral Sweden—carrying British produce.

Шаблон:HMS, a British submarine, later fired on U-36 and subsequently claimed to have sunk her, although in fact the torpedo missed.[3] On 27 September Fröhlich and his crew captured another Swedish vessel, Шаблон:SS, which he proceeded to escort back to Germany as the patrol came to an end.[2][3] She returned to her berth in Kiel at the end of September, where she remained until December.[4] During her first patrol, U-36 was also credited with having laid the mine that sank the Norwegian freighter, Solaas.

Second war patrol

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U-36 with another U-boat in the background, at sea in 1936

On 17 November 1939, Naval High Command (SKL) issued orders for U-36 and Шаблон:GS to scout the location for Basis Nord, a secret German naval base for raids on Allied shipping located off the Kola Peninsula and provided by the Soviet Union.[5] The mission required coded messages to be flashed to Soviet naval vessels patrolling the area preceding a Soviet escort to the prospective base location.[6]

However, U-36 never left the Norwegian Sea.[6] On 4 December 1939, two days out of Wilhelmshaven, she was spotted on the surface near the Norwegian port of Stavanger by the British submarine Шаблон:HMS. Salmon then fired one torpedo at her unwitting counterpart. It sank U-36, all 40 of the sailors aboard were lost.[6][7] During the same patrol, the Salmon also torpedoed the light cruisers Шаблон:Ship and Шаблон:Ship.[8]

Following the loss of U-36, U-38 continued towards the Kola Peninsula, successfully reaching the location and accomplished the scouting mission for Basis Nord.[6]

Summary of raiding history

Date Ship Nationality Tonnage (GRT) Fate[9]
15 September 1939 Truro Шаблон:Flagcountry 974 Sunk[4]
25 September 1939 Шаблон:SS Шаблон:Flag 1,839 Sunk[4]
27 September 1939 Algeria Шаблон:Flag 1,617 Captured as prize[2]
28 September 1939 "Solaas" Шаблон:Flag 1,368 Sunk (mine)

References

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External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок uboatnet не указан текст
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  3. 3,0 3,1 Blair 2000, p. 96.
  4. 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  5. Philbin 1994, p. 95.
  6. 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 Philbin 1994, p. 96
  7. Шаблон:Cite web
  8. Roskill 1998, p. 58.
  9. Шаблон:Cite web