U-22

CountryGermany
Ship ClassType II-class Submarine
BuilderFriedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
Yard Number552
Slip/Drydock NumberII
Ordered2 Feb 1935
Laid Down4 Mar 1936
Launched29 Jul 1936
Commissioned21 Aug 1936

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1. Commenter identity confirmed Alan Chanter says:
22 Jan 2021 02:48:49 AM

On Sunday 21 January 1940 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Exmouth (Captain Richard Benson, DSO, RN), while escorting the merchant Cyprian Prince, was torpedoed and sunk by U-22 (Kapitänleutnant Karl-Heinrich Jenisch) off Wick, Scotland with the loss of all hands.

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