German Navy

German sub U-30

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The U-30 in the port of Lorient, Brittany, north-western France, after the sixth combat patrol. German submarine U-30 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served during World War II. She mistakenly sank the British passenger liner SS Athenia, the first ship sunk in World War II, on 3 September 1939. She was retired from front-line service in September 1940, after undertaking eight war patrols, having sunk 17 vessels and damaging two others.