The 2nd U-boat Flotilla, also known as the Saltzwedel Flotilla, was the second operational U-boat unit in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Founded on 1 September 1936 under the command of Fregattenkapitän Werner Scheer, it was named in honour of Oberleutnant zur See Reinhold Saltzwedel. Saltzwedel, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on 2 December 1917, when his submarine UB-81 was sunk by a mine in the English Channel.
U-boat pen Keroman I at Lorient.
Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
Aerial view of the harbour of Lorient
Lorient in the 18th century
L'Enclos at the end of the 18th century
The Harbor at Lorient, 1869 painting by Berthe Morisot.