U-36

Sunk

Type	Submarine
Class	Type VIIA
War	Second World War
Main guns	1 × 3.5″ gun

Torpedoed by the submarine Salmon off south-west Norway on 4 December 1939, and lost with all hands: the first submarine sunk by another in the war.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. U-Boot U 36 Unterseeboot U-36, Typ VII A Photo: UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern)
11 torpedoes or 22 TMA mines
1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun (220 rounds)
1 × 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft gun

Builder	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Laid down	2 March 1936
Launched	4 November 1936
Commissioned	16 December 1936
Displacement	626 tonnes (616 long tons) surfaced 745 t (733 long tons) submerged
Length	64.51 m (211 ft 8 in) o/a 45.50 m (149 ft 3 in) pressure hull
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Complement	4 officers, 40–56 enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

4 November 1936

Salmon sinks U-36

Sunk

4 December 1939

Wilhelm Fröhlich; lost with all hands