German submarine U-6 (1935)
- German submarine U-6 (1935)
Unterseeboot 6 (usually abbreviated to U-6) was a long-lived but very inactive German U-boat built before World War II for service in the Kriegsmarine. As she was one of the first batch of boats built following the reunuciation of the Treaty of Versailles, she was a II type, and thus capable of only coastal and short cruising work. This led to her being reassigned to training duties after the Norwegian campaign of 1940.
Built at Kiel in 1935, "U-6" was a prestigious position for a captain in the German Navy during the years running up to the war, and her commanders were all First World War veterans. However, once war began, it was painfully clear that "U-6" and her sisters were not capable of competing with other nations' larger and faster boats, and so after an initial patrol in the Baltic Sea, "U-6" was not deployed again until March 1940, when every ship available to the Kriegsmarine was sent to support the invasion of Norway. During the month-long campaign, "U-6"'s sister boats suffered numerous losses, and gained a reputation as something of a liability, which led them to be withdrawn to a training squadron in the Baltic for the remainder of the war.
In the Baltic, "U-6" trained officer cadets in the skills needed to fight in the Second Battle of the Atlantic, and some of her patrols even verged on Soviet territory following Operation Barbarossa, although unlike some of her sister boats, "U-6" never found a target on these missions. In the summer of 1944, with fuel and resources in short supply and the reputation of the type II boats plummeting following a number of fatal accidents, "U-6" was removed from service and laid up at Gotenhafen with a skeleton crew to perform maintenance. There she remained until May 1945, when a demolition team blew her up at her berth to prevent her falling into enemy hands.
References
* Sharpe, Peter, "U-Boat Fact File", Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u6.htm uboat.net webpage for "U-6"]
* [http://ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=6 ubootwaffe.net webpage for "U-6"]
See Also: List of U-boats
For other submarines with this designation, see: Unterseeboot 6
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