Unterseeboot 8 (1935)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-8
Ordered:	July 20, 1934
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 542
Laid down:	March 25, 1935
Launched:	July 16, 1935
Commissioned:	August 5, 1935
Fate:	Scuttled May 2, 1945 in the Raeder Lock at Wilhelmshaven.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: U-Bootschulflottille 1. Unterseebootsflottille 22. Unterseebootsflottille 24. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 06 994
Commanders	Harald Grosse Georg Peters Otto Schuhart Wolf-Harro Stiebler Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock Georg-Heinz Michel Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat Heinz Stein Walter Kell Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche Heinrich Heinsohn Ulrich Borcherdt Rolf Steinhaus Horst Deckert Rudolf Hoffmann Alfred Werner Jürgen Iversen Jürgen Kriegshammer
Victories	No ships sunk or damaged

Unterseeboot 8 or U-8 was a Nazi German U-boat based out of Kiel during World War II. It was one of the smaller versions, Type IIB, and was first launched on July 16, 1935. Its first commander was Harald Grosse. U-7 would have 18 commanders total over the course of its service, the last being Jürgen Kriegshammer.

It was too small to undertake sustained operations far away from the home support facilities and its primary role was found to be in the training schools, preparing new German naval officers for command.