Unterseeboot 17 (1935)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-17
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 547
Laid down:	July 1, 1935
Launched:	November 14, 1935
Commissioned:	December 3, 1935
Fate:	Scuttled May 5, 1945 at Wilhelmshaven.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 1. Unterseebootsflottille 22. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 25 322
Commanders	Werner Fresdorf Heinz von Reiche Harald Jeppener-Haltenhoff Udo Behrens Wolf-Harro Stiebler Herwig Collmann Wolfgang Schultze Otto Wollschläger Ernst Heydemann Walter Sitek Karl-Heinz Schmidt Hans-Jürgen Bartsch
Operations	4
Victories	3 ships sunk for a total of 1.825 gross register tons (GRT)

Unterseeboot 17 (also known as U-17) was a German Type IIB U-boat of the Kriegsmarine, built in Germaniawerft, Kiel, laid down on July 1, 1935 and commissioned on December 3, 1935 under command of Werner Fresdorf.

In its career were 4 patrols, all served under 1. Unterseebootsflottille where it sunk 3 ships for a total of 1.825 GRT. Later in the war it served under 22. Unterseebootsflottille as a school boat, including Oberleutnant Walter Sitek as instructor. Sitek had previously escaped from being taken prisoner in the disabling and sinking of U-581 by HMS Westcott in February, 1942. Sitek swam 6 km to Pico Island in the Azores, made his way through neutral Spain and returned to the Kriegsmarine to serve as instructor on U-17, U-981 and U-3005.