U-19 Uboat Submarine Wreck:






U-19 Uboat Submarine Wreck



U-19 submarine was a IIB class German uboat submarine whose produciton started in 20th of Jule 1935 and finished in 21st of December 1935 in the F.Krupp Germaniawerft AG dockyards in Kiel-Gaarden. She was commisioned at 16th of january 1936. She has been on more than 20 scouting mission under the command of a lot of captains. She sunked 441 tonnaged one battle ship and 35430 gross tonnaged 14 ships. She has been sunked by her latest captain Hubert Verpoorten in Turkish Seas.

During her 20 patrols, she had been comissioned in 1,22,24 and 30th filotillas. Her captains in order:
16 Jan, 1936 - 30 Sep, 1937 Kptlt. Viktor Schütze (Knights Cross) ;
30 Sep, 1937 - 1 Nov, 1939 Hans Meckel ;
2 Nov, 1939 - 2 Jan, 1940 Wilhelm Müller-Arnecke ;
3 Jan, 1940 - 30 Apr, 1940 Kptlt. Joachim Schepke (Knights Cross) ;
1 May, 1940 - 19 Jun, 1940 Wilfried Prellberg ;
20 Jun, 1940 - 20 Oct, 1940 Peter Lohmeyer ;
21 Oct, 1940 - 8 Nov, 1940 Wolfgang Kaufmann ;
8 Nov, 1940 - 31 May, 1941 Rudolf Schendel ;
1 Jun, 1941 - Feb, 1942 Gerhard Litterscheid ;
16 Dec, 1941 - Feb, 1942 Hans-Ludwig Gaude ;
Feb, 1942 - 30 Apr, 1942 Hans-Ludwig Gaude ;
1 Oct, 1942 - 2 Dec, 1943 Kptlt. Hans-Ludwig Gaude ;
3 Dec, 1943 - 6 Sep, 1944 Oblt. Willy Ohlenburg ;
7 Sep, 1944 - 10 Sep, 1944 Hubert Verpoorten .



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Max Depth:
Surfaced 279 tons , submerged 328 tons
42.7 * 4.1 * 3.9 m
700hp Surfaced , 360 hp submerged
13 knots Surfaced (24km/h) ; 7 knots submerged(13km/h)
8 knots 5000km Surfaced ; 4 knots submerged 70km
5 torpedo tubes
No deck gun
22-24
150m (500 ft)


She had been taken out of active duty in 1st of May 1940 and used as a training and school ship. In 1st of May 1942, she had been taken in to active duty again.

The flottillas she had been comissioned:
1 Jan, 1936 - 1 Aug, 1939 1. Flottille (front boat)
1 Sep, 1939 - 31 Dec, 1939 1. Flottille (front boat)
1 Jan, 1940 - 30 Apr, 1940 1. Flottille (front boat)
1 May, 1940 - 30 Jun, 1940 1. U-Ausbildungsflottille (training)
1 Jul, 1940 - 18 Dec, 1940 24. Flottille (training)
19 Dec, 1940 - 1 May, 1942 22. Flottille (school boat)
1 Oct, 1942 - 10 Sep, 1944 30. Flottille (front boat)


In the World War II, in order to support the war from sea, Germany who was in war with Russia, decided to establish a sea fleet in the Black Sea. After the neutral side Turkey closed the straits, Germans bring their ships to Romania by boats from Elbe and Tuna rivers and by trucks from the roads. The sea fleet established in the Kostence harbour was a lot of attack boats, mine cleaner ships and six submarines in his structure. The submarines fighted against the Russian Fleet in the Black Sea. But the land wars turned against the Germans. Red army, captured Romania in August 1944 and sunked the three of the submarines in the Kostence harbour. The other three which managed to escape from the harbour was stucked in the Black sea after Russia captured Bulgaria. Without any other chances the captains of the submarines decided to sunk their submarines near the Turkish Coast. Their plan was to reach the Aegean islands and somehow to reach Germany from there. In the night of 10 th and 11th of september 1944 the submarines have been sunked by their crew near Eregli. But unfortunately after a few days in Turkiye they were caught and kept heldive in Beysehir and Isparta for two years.







She is now in 41.16N , 31.26E coordinates. In an other source, it is said that she had been sunk in 41.34N, 31.50E at 22:30 o'clock at the night of 11th september 1944. But her exact position can't be found. The search for this submarine still continues.

The books that mentions about this submarine:
German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998
Okrety plyna po ladzie, Piwowoñski, Jan, 1959
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998




U19 submarine's detailed operations here.
U19 submarine's crew here.

Ships sunk by her:
21 October 1939 : S.S. "Capitaine Edmond Laborie" (3087 ton), M.V. "Deodata" (3295 ton) by mines laid by her between 14/10/1939 and 10/10/1939
24 October 1939 : S.S. "Konstantinos Hadjipateras" (5962 ton) by mines laid by her between 14/10/1939 and 10/10/1939
17/18 November 1939 : S.S. "Carica Milica" (6371 ton) by mines laid by her between 15/11/1939 and 20/11/1939
09 January 1940 : S.S. "Manx" (1343 ton)
23 January 1940 : S.S. "Baltanglia" (1523 ton)
23 January 1940 : S.S. "Pluto" (1598 ton)
25 January 1940 : S.S. "Louvain" (4434 ton)
25 January 1940 : S.S. "Gudveig" (1300 ton)
20 February 1940 : M.V. "Daghestan"
19 March 1941 : S.S. "Minsk" (1229 ton)
19 March 1941 : S.S. "Charkow" (1026 ton)
20 March 1941 : S.S. "Viking" (1153 ton)
20 March 1941 : S.S. "Bothal" (2109 ton)
14 February 1943 : S.S. "Krasnyji Profintern" (4648 ton)

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