SM UB 122
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SM UB 122 ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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 Similar boat: SM UB 148 |
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| Type : | UB III |
| Shipyard: | AG Weser |
| Launch: | February 2, 1918 |
| Commissioning: | March 4, 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Oberleutnant zur See Alexander Magnus |
| Calls: | 2 patrol trips |
| Sinkings: |
0 |
| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain on November 24, 1918. Sunk on the way to scrapping in 1921. Washed up in 2013, the wreck is now above water |
SM UB 122 was a German submarine of the type UB III of the Imperial Navy during the First World War .
description
UB 122 was built by AG Weser in Bremen ( keel laid on May 21, 1917, launched on February 2, 1918) and put into service on March 4, 1918 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Friedrichträger. Later, Oberleutnant zur See Alexander Magnus took command.
Like all UB-III submarines, UB 122 carried ten torpedoes and was armed with four bow torpedo tubes , a stern torpedo tube and a 10.5 cm deck gun. The crew consisted of three officers and 31 men. With two fuel oil bunkers (35 + 36 t fuel oil ) it had a range of 8,500 nm (15,742 km ) at 6 kn (11.1 km / h) when sailing above water . With one battery charge it was possible underwater at 4 kn (7 km / h) up to 55 nm (102 km). The maximum speed was 13.6 kn (25.2 km / h) surface and 8 kn (14.8 km / h) under water. The production costs amounted to 3,654,000 marks . The length of the boat was 55.3 m with a width of 5.8 m and a draft of 3.7 m. It had two drive shafts . A 6-cylinder Körting diesel engine with 550 hp (405 kW) for overwater travel and a Siemens-Schuckert electric motor with 394 hp (290 kW) for travel under water were coupled to each drive shaft. The approved diving depth was 50 meters and the diving time was 30 seconds.
Calls
During the first operation from July 17 to August 6, 1918, UB 122 steered from Kiel on the east route to the British east coast. The trip was unsuccessful.
The second venture from September 6th to October 4th 1918 led UB 122 from Heligoland around Scotland and Ireland to the Cornwall coast . On October 4, 1918 UB 122 docked in the port of Wilhelmshaven . The mission was also unsuccessful.
Whereabouts
According to the terms of the armistice, the boat was delivered to Great Britain, on the way to the scrapping site it sank on the British east coast in 1921. In December 2013, the wreck was washed free after a storm in the mouth of the River Medway , current location: 51 ° 25 ′ 50.4 ″ N , 0 ° 37 ′ 55 ″ E, .
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Footnotes
- ↑ a b c Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, 1993, ISBN 3860700367 , pp. 60, 73.
- ↑ a b c d e Eberhard Rössler: History of the German submarine building Volume 1 . Bernard & Graefe , 1996, ISBN 3860471538 , pp. 85-89, 265.
- ↑ a b Harald Bendert: The UB boats of the Imperial Navy 1914-1918 . ES Mittler & Sohn , 2000, ISBN 3813207137 , p. 85.
- ↑ Sturm exposes German submarine wreck on www.n24.de, accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ David Wilkes: A monster off the British coast: Rusting hulk of World War One German U-boat emerges after almost a century . In: Mail online from December 20, 2013 (online edition of the Daily Mail )
- ↑ Historic wreckage of German First World War U-boat revealed in low tide Daily Telegraph of December 20, 2013.
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