Unterseeboot 9 (1935)

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U-9
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Kriegsmarine
Type	IIB
Fieldpost number	M 13 068
Shipyard	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Yard number	543
Ordered	July 20, 1934
Laid down	April 8, 1935
Launched	July 30, 1935
Commissioned	August 21, 1935
Career
Patrols	19
Flotillas	1. Unterseebootsflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Commanders	Hans-Günther Looff Werner von Schmidt Ludwig Mathes Max-Martin Schulte Wolfgang Lüth Wolfgang Kaufmann Joachim Deecke Hans-Joachim Schmidt-Weichert Heinrich Klapdor Martin Landt-Hayen Klaus Petersen
Successes
7 ships sunk for a total of 16.669 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 552 tons 1 warship damaged for a total of 412 tons
Fate
Sunk August 24, 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea.

Unterseeboot 9 (usually abbreviated to U-9) was a German Type IIB U-boat built for the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on April 8, 1935 by Germaniawerft in Kiel. She was launched on July 30, 1935 and commissioned on August 21, 1935 with Kapitänleutnant Hans-Günther Looff in command.

U-9 conducted 19 patrols under a series of commanders, including u-boat ace Wolfgang Lüth, sinking eight ships totalling 17,221 tons and damaging another displacing 412 tons. This included the French coastal submarine of the Sirène class Doris.

[edit] Fate

At 1030hrs on August 20, 1944 at Konstanza in the Black Sea in position 44°12′N, 28°41′E, U-9 was sunk by bombs from Soviet aircraft. In 1945 the Soviets raised the boat and brought it into Mykolaiv. She was repaired and in 1945 was commissioned into the Soviet Navy as TS-16, but did not perform well and was broken up December 12, 1946.