SS - U-3 (1935)

U-3
U-3
     
Název:
Name:
U-3 U-3
Originální název:
Original Name:
U-3
Kategorie:
Category:
pobřežní ponorka submersible ship, coastal
Třída:
Class:
Typ IIA
Kódové označení:
Pennant Number:
U-3
Loděnice:
Builder:
Deutsche Werke AG, Kiel /
Založení kýlu:
Laid Down:
11.02.1935
Spuštění na vodu:
Launched:
19.07.1935
Uvedení do služby:
Commissioned:
06.08.1935
Vyřazení ze služby:
Decommissioned:
01.08.1944 rozebrána na náhradní díly / Cannibalized for Spare Parts
Potopené lodě:
Sunk Ships:
30.09.1939 Gun (1198 GRT)
30.09.1939 Vendia (1150 GRT)
Velitel:
Commander:
06.08.1935-01.06.1937 Meckel, Hans (Oberleutnant zur See)
01.06.1937-29.09.1937 Meckel, Hans (Kapitänleutnant)
30.09.1937-DD.07.1938 Heinicke, Ernst Günter (Oberleutnant zur See)
29.10.1938-01.06.1939 Schepke, Joachim (Oberleutnant zur See)
01.06.1939-02.01.1940 Schepke, Joachim (Kapitänleutnant)
03.01.1940-28.07.1940 Schreiber, Gerd (Kapitänleutnant)
29.07.1940-10.11.1940 Franzke, Helmut (Kapitänleutnant)
11.11.1940-02.07.1941 Bülow, Otto von (Kapitänleutnant)
03.07.1941-02.03.1942 Trojer, Hans Hartwig (Oberleutnant zur See)
03.03.1942-30.09.1942 Zander, Joachim (Oberleutnant zur See)
01.10.1942-01.04.1943 Zoller, Herbert (Leutnant zur See)
01.04.1943-18.05.1943 Zoller, Herbert (Oberleutnant zur See)
19.05.1943-01.02.1944 Hartmann, Ernst (Leutnant zur See)
01.02.1944-09.06.1944 Hartmann, Ernst (Oberleutnant zur See)
10.06.1944-16.07.1944 Neumeister, Hermann (Leutnant zur See)
Jednotka:
Unit:
06.08.1939-DD.11.1937 Schulverband der U-Bootschule
DD.11.1937-30.06.1940 Ponorková školní flotila
01.07.1940-01.08.1944 21. ponorková flotila
06.08.1939-DD.11.1937 Schulverband der U-Bootschule
DD.11.1937-30.06.1940 Submarine School Flotilla
01.07.1940-01.08.1944 21st Submarine Flotilla
Poznámka:
Note:
potopena 2 obchodní plavidla (2.348 BRT) sunk 2 merchant ships (2,348 GRT)
Zdroje:
Sources:
http://uboat.net/ ; http://www.u-boote-online.de/ ; http://www.wikipedia.org/ ; http://www.ubootwaffe.net/
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At-3




order Number
- werk 238


Number of field mail
- M 01 385


Home port
- Kiel /
- Wilhelmshaven /
- Neustadt in Holstein /



Time patrol / Period of Patrol : Commander / Commander : Description / Description : Achievements / Successes :
04.09.1939-08.09.1939 Kapitänleutnant Joachim Schepke 1. fighting sailing, lasting 5 days
The submarine set sail from the port of Wilhelmshaven in Germany, but already after five days they returned back to base
was not sunk any enemy vessel
13.09.1939-24.09.1939 Kapitänleutnant Joachim Schepke 2. fighting cruise, lasting 12 days
Vessel U-1 left the base in the Wilhelmshaven in Germany and operated the coast of the Netherlands and in the area of shipping routes between the Netherlands and the United kingdom, then returned again to the Wilhelmshaven in Germany
was not sunk any enemy vessel
27.09.1939-03.10.1939 Kapitänleutnant Joachim Schepke 3. fighting cruise, lasting 7 days
Submarine after setting sail from a port in Wilhelmshaven in Germany, and during the voyage have been patrolling in the coastal waters of Denmark, where in the area between Norway and Denmark sank two merchant ship. After a week's voyage arrived at the port in Kiel
torpedoed and sunk the Danish cargo ship, the Vendia, and the Swedish cargo ship, the Gun
16.03.1940-29.03.1940 Kapitänleutnant Gerd Schreiber 4. fighting cruise, lasting 14 days
After the departure of Kiel in Germany, operating in the western approaches to the strait of Skagerrak and his patrol ended at the base in the Wilhelmshaven in Germany
was not sunk any enemy vessel
12.04.1940-19.04.1940 Kapitänleutnant Gerd Schreiber 5. fighting cruise, lasting 8 days
After the departure of Wilhelmshaven operating a submarine in the North sea in the space on the approaches to ports in Denmark and southern Norway, then returned back to the Wilhelmshaven in Germany
was not sunk any enemy vessel




Date / Date : Event / Event :
02.02.1935 ordered the construction of the vessel
30.09.1939 in the morning was the fire of the cannon stopped, the Danish trading ship Vendia (at that time a neutral country). Further testimony from both parties splitting up, according to the testimony of the German captain of the submarine (Schepke) is a Danish steamer tried to German submarine going to ram and from the decision of the captain of the U-3 was without much aiming fired a torpedo that struck the stern of the vessel for several minutes followed by an explosion, after which the Vendia immediately sank. Survived the 6 crew members who were shortly after turned over to the other Danish vessel. Even before this lot of Denmark into the war, the Danish maritime court this event investigated, while under interrogation, the survivors of the crew of the Danish vessel, in any case, try going to ram the submarine and the situation could arise by stopping the vessel in combination with a strong current and overall restless sea (including the high waves) ... the Whole event ended up filing a formal protest to the Danish foreign minister at the German embassy in Copenhagen.
In the evening at a distance of 30 nm from the coast of Denmark was stopped by the Swedish merchant steamer Gun and after examination of the documents for the cargo, which brought kapinán cargo ship on the submarine, it was his part evaluated as kontrabant (it was about 56 tons of weapons/ammo). Immediately after the detention of the captain of the steamboat began to the steamer to move, taking after the morning's experience with the Danish vessel was immediately vyslan 4 man team, which he boarded on a cargo ship. Soon after was the U-3 forced to take the plunge, because noticed on the surface of the flying enemy submarine HMS Thistle (N24), followed by the ejection of the torpedo, the G7, which was unsuccessful. On a british submarine sank podeplula Swedish steamer, unaware that on his board he thought was the German team of the explosives and preparing the vessel for sinking, podeplula the Swedish vessel, and after an hour surfaced and left the area. In the meantime, was from the steamer evacuated the crew in the rescue boats and then the ship left and the German sailors from a submarine, the explosives were deployed and the valves opened. Now the survivors were picked up by a Danish commercial vessel Dagmar and that's including the Germans. In the early morning of the following day was the Danish vessel stopped the submarine U-3, was collected by the German boarding team and the submarine went back for švédkým craft Gun, which now aimlessly drifted and one torpedo him finally sank in the early hours of 1. October 1939
16.04.1940 the british submarine HMS Porpoise (N14), operating in Norwegian coastal waters, fired a volley of 6 torpedoes on the U-3 and after a while I heard the crew a blast, thanks to which it was concluded, that sank the U-3. In fact, it was the explosion of the torpedo, the G7, which, in turn, fired For-3 on HMS Porpoise (N14), while missed, and the torpedo after a lapse of a predetermined time itself detonated.
01.08.1944 submarine U-3 was decommissioned in the Neustadt in Holstein and gradually kanibalizována due to lack of spare parts.
03.05.1945 dilapidated vessel was captured by the british forces at the end of the war and subsequently scrapped
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Zadaná objednávka: 02.02.1935
Kýl položený: 11.02.1935
Spustenie na vodu: 19.07.1935
Uvedenie do služby: 06.08.1935


august 1935 - jún 1940 U-Schule Flottille, Neustadt slúžila ako
Školská ponorka
Bojová ponorka - nasadená 04.09.1939 - 08.09.1939
13.09.1939 - 24.09.1939
27.09.1939 - 03.10.1939
16.03.1940 - 29.03.1940
12.04.1940 - 19.04.1940


júl 1940 - júl 1944 21. U-Flottille, Pillau slúžila ako
Školská ponorka


- 30.09.1939 potopila Dánsku loď Vendia o výtlaku 1,150 tón (35 míľ severovýchodne od HANSTHOLM)
- 30.09.1939 potopila Švédsku loď Gun o výtlaku 1,198 tón (30 míľ severovýchodne od HANSTHOLM s nákladom 50 tón munície)



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