German submarine U-19 (1936)

German submarine U-19 (1936)

Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) was a Type IIB German U-boat that was in use during World War II. Her keel was laid down on July 20, 1935 at the Germaniawerft of Kiel. She was launched on December 21, 1935, and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on January 16, 1936, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Viktor Schütze.

"U-19" conducted 20 patrols, sinking 15 ships totalling 35,871 tons. On May 1, 1940, "U-19" was withdrawn from combat duty and used for training and as a school boat. On May 1, 1942, she returned to active duty.

Fate

On September 10, 1944, she was scuttled in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey. "U-19" suffered no casualties to any of her crews.

On February 3, 2008, The Telegraph reported that U-20 and U-23 have been discovered by Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer. He thinks he is also close to pinpointing the U-19, thought to lie more than 1,000ft down, three miles from the Turkish city of Zonguldak. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2008/02/03/whitler103.xml]

External links

*cite web|url=http://uboat.net/boats/u19.htm |accessdate=2007-02-27
title=U-19 |publisher=uboat.net

*cite web|url=http://ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=19 |accessdate=2007-02-27
work=U-Boat Operations
title=U-19
publisher=Kriegsmarine and U-Boat history, ubootwaffe.net

*cite web|url=http://www.u-boot-archiv.de/dieboote/u0017.html|accessdate=2007-02-27
work=u-boot-archiv.de
title=U-19
publisher=Kriegsmarine and U-Boat history, u-boot-archiv.de

*cite web|url=http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/auto/newsdesk/20080104112405ymnews.html|accessdate=2008-02-05
title=U-19


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