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U-26 Conning Tower Emblems
 Under Ewerth       
SHARKHUNTERS International
History of the German submarine U-26

Much of this information, the data, the photos etc. comes directly from the veterans, the veterans' organizations and is the most accurate available anywhere..............much of this information is not even known elsewhere.
 

The caption on the back of this photo is hand written: "To my friend Harry Cooper; Sharkhunters visit Kiel 18.09.1992" It is signed by ERNST GÖTHLING (1225-1989)

This was one of only two Type I-A boats built; unpopular with their crews due to their bad handling characteristics.
 

             7 Men lost   (list below)

Commanders of U-26 include:

Werner Hartmann	Klaus Ewerth	Maschinengefreiter ERNST GÖTHLING (1225-1989) during U-Boat training  He later rose to the rank of Kapitänleutnant in the Bundsmarine

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U-26 was attached to the 2nd U-Bootflottille and operated in the English Channel during September 1939 and laid mines off Portland, England over 8-10 September 1939.  She successfully broke through the Straits of Gibraltar on 8 November 1939 then she broke out of the Mediterranean through Gibraltar on 18 November 1939.  She was to lay mines at Gibraltar but that plan was aborted.  U-26 then patrolled one time in the North Atlantic and had two patrols off the Norwegian coast and one more in the North Atlantic where she was sunk.

                  SHIPS SUNK BY U-26 (Ewerth commanding)

  *  Ran onto mines in the field laid by U-26 on 8 September 1939.
 ** It is recorded in logbooks at BdU (U-Boat HQ) that U-26 sank a ship as she was transiting Gibraltar but it does not appear accurate.

Wreck of ELENA R	HMS KITTIWAKE

                  SHIPS SUNK BY U-26 (Scheringer commanding)

U-26 fired at an unknown ship of unknown type of unknown tonnage and claimed damage.  No confirmation.

On 3 Feb 1940, U-26 damaged the 4,871 ton British freighter ZARIAN.

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          Men lost on U-26

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Many thanks to our friend and Sharkhunters Member since 1987 GEORG HÖGEL for all the conning tower emblems used in our monthly KTB Magazine and also here on the pages of our website.  GEORG was radioman aboard U-30, the first boat into combat, the first to sink a ship (the liner ATHENIA) and the first into an occupied French port.  When that Skipper (Lemp) took command of U-110, GEORG was one of the former crew to transfer to the new boat under Lemp.  After the war, he was Professor of Art at a major German university.