U-22
Country | Germany |
Ship Class | Type II-class Submarine |
Builder | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft |
Yard Number | 552 |
Slip/Drydock Number | II |
Ordered | 2 Feb 1935 |
Laid Down | 4 Mar 1936 |
Launched | 29 Jul 1936 |
Commissioned | 21 Aug 1936 |
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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.