Prewar picture of U-1
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Nazi Germany | |
Name | U-1 |
Ordered | 2 February 1935[1] |
Builder | Deutsche Werke, Kiel[2] |
Cost | 1,500,000 Reichsmark |
Yard number | 236[2] |
Laid down | 11 February 1935[2] |
Launched | 15 June 1935[2] |
Commissioned | 29 June 1935[2] |
Fate | Sunk 6 April 1940 north of Terschelling by a British mine[3] |
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Class and type | Type IIA coastal submarine |
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Height | 8.60 m (28 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 3.83 m (12 ft 7 in) |
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Test depth | 80 m (260 ft) |
Complement | 3 officers, 22 men |
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Identification codes: | M 27 893 |
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Victories: | None |
German submarine U-1 was the first U-boat (or submarine) built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine following Adolf Hitler's abrogation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1935, which banned Germany possessing a submarine force.
A Type IIA U-boat, she was built at the Deutsche Werke shipyards in Kiel, yard number 236, her keel being laid on 11 February 1935 amid celebration. She was commissioned on 29 June 1935 after a very rapid construction, and was manned by crews trained in the Netherlands.