German submarine U-9 (1935)

The German submarine U-9 was a Type IIB U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on 8 February 1935, by Germaniawerft in Kiel as 'werk' 543. She was launched on 30 July 1935 and commissioned on 21 August, with Korvettenkapitän Hans-Günther Looff in command.

U-9 conducted 19 patrols under a series of commanders, including U-boat ace Wolfgang Lüth, sinking eight ships totalling 17,221 tons and damaging another displacing 412 tons. This included the French Sirène class coastal submarine FRENCH SUBMARINE Doris.

Fate
To serve in the 30th U-boat Flotilla, the submarine was transported overland and along the Danube to the Black Sea. At 10:30hrs on 20 August 1944, at Konstanza in Rumania in position 44.2°N, 28.68333°W, U-9 was sunk by bombs from Soviet aircraft. The Soviets raised the boat and brought her into Mykolaiv in 1945. She was repaired and commissioned into the Soviet Navy as SOVIET SUBMARINE TS-16, but did not perform well and was broken up on 12 December 1946.