二次世界大戰資料庫 (WW2DB)

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseU-36 was a Type VIIA submarine of the German Navy. Before the European War began, she sailed in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea under Lieutenant Captain Klaus Ewerth, largely as a training vessel. On 1 Feb 1939, Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Fröhlich took command. Under Fröhlich, she departed from Kiel, Germany on 13 Aug 1939 in anticipation for the start of the European War, and remained on patrol for one month, sinking two steamers, one British and the other Swedish. On 17 Nov, Naval High Command issued the secret order for U-36 and U-38 to scout the location for Basis Nord, a secret German naval base for raids on Allied shipping off of the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, which was offered by the Russians in secret for use as a staging point for German merchant raiding missions. En route, she was spotted by British submarine HMS Salmon, which sank U-36 near the port city of Stavanger in southern Norway on 4 Dec 1939 with a single torpedo. U-36 was lost with all hands.

Photographs

U-36 Operational Timeline