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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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"George Patton, 31 May 1944
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.