German submarine U-35 (1936)

Type VIIA submarine

Service

Kriegsmarine as U-353 November 1936 — 29 November 193988 days of the war

Type VIIA submarine Particulars

Name: U-35
Pennant / hull number: 1936
Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel
Ordered: 25 March 1935
Laid down: 2 March 1936
Launched: 24 September 1936
Commissioned: 3 November 1936
Fate: Scuttled, 29 November 1939 (1939)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 616 long tons (626 t)
Displacement, submerged: 733 long tons (745 t)
Length: 64.51 m (211.6 ft) OA
Beam: 5.85 m (19.2 ft)
Draught: 4.37 m (14.3 ft)
Speed: 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
Range: 6,200 nmi (11,482 km)
Main gun: 88 mm (3.5 in)

U-35 was a Type VIIA submarine of the Kriegsmarine. She carried the pennant number 1936. Germaniawerft, Kiel laid her keel on 2 March 1936. Launched on 24 September 1936, she entered service on 3 November 1936.

She was one of 21 ships of her class. The class followed the Type UB III, Vetehinen class and was succeeded by the Type XXI (Late-war replacement).

The boat displaced 616 long tons surfaced and 733 long tons submerged. She measured 64.5 m (212 ft) long with a beam of 5.8 m (19 ft). Her designed speed was 17 knots.

Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 88 days of the Second World War.

She was scuttled on 29 November 1939, at 60°53′N 2°47′E. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts
2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
Power: 2100 - 2310 PS (diesels)
750 PS (electric)
Armament: 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern)
11 × torpedoes or 22 TMA mines
1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
1 × 2 cm C/30 anti-aircraft gun

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from German submarine U-35 (1936) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — Self-scanned (historisches Foto vom Flohmarkt) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons