U-36

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Originally Posted by Packlife

I was reading a post in a different part of the forum, an a SH4 player I think said that he actually looked up his boat in real life to get it's history, I thought it was a slick idea so I thought I'd bring up that idea here in the SH5 section. My U-Boat is U-36 an this is what I found. The U-36 was a Type VIIA U-Boat, she was built at Kiel an commissioned on December 16th 1936, she served in the pre-war Navy in the North Sea an the Baltic Sea under Kapitänleutnant Klaus Ewerth. During the war she was commanded by Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Fröhlich in the 2nd U-Boat Flotilla. In September of 39' she went on patrol in the North Sea for 3 weeks an sunk 2 steamers the British SS Truro, an the Swedish SS Silesia. U-36 also got the credit for laying the mine that sunk the Norwegian SS Solaas, she also captured the Swedish SS Algeria an took the Algeria back to Kiel. A British sub the Seahorse claimed to have sunk the 36 but missed w/ a 3 shot spread, supposedly 1 of the fish actually past right under 36 lucky on that 1. But her 2nd patrol she would not be so lucky. In November of 39' Naval High Command ordered U-36 an U-38 to scout the location for the Basis Nord, a secret German naval base for raiding allied shipping located off the Kola Peninsula. But the U-36 never made it out of the Norwegian Sea, she was spotted surfaced near the Norwegian port of Stavanger by a British sub the HMS Salmon who fired 1 torpedo at U-36 an sunk her taking all the crew down w/ her. Heres a couple of pics of the U-36 pre war

She 'frohlichs' no more!