SM U 5

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SM U 5
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Type:

U 5- U 8

Shipyard:

Germania shipyard , Kiel

Launch:

January 8, 1910

Commissioning:

July 2, 1910

Calls:

2 patrols

Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: Sunk on December 18, 1914. Later lifted and broken up.

SM U 5 (His Majesty Submarine 5) was a submarine of the Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .

Calls

U 5 was launched on January 8, 1910 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel and was put into service on July 2, 1910. During the war, Johannes Lemmer was in command . The boat made two patrols ; no ships were sunk.

Whereabouts

U 5 declined after an accident or of a mine detonation on December 18, 1914 of the Belgian coast north of Zeebrügge approximately at the position of 51 ° 23 '  N , 3 ° 11'  O . All 29 crew members including the commander were killed. The boat was later lifted and scrapped.

literature

  • Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
  • Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , p. 10.