SM U 100
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean- going boat official draft from MS -type war mission F |
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| Series: | U 99 - U 104 | |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen | |
| Build number: | 251 | |
| Launch: | February 25, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | April 16, 1917 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 750 tons (above water) 952 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 67.60 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.65 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-52 p | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.5 knots (above water) 8.8 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (10–12 torpedoes) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (from 1918) |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 8th | |
| Successes: | 8 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to Great Britain in November 1918; In 1922 Swansea scrapped | |
SM U 100 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used.
Calls
U 100 was launched on 25 February 1917 at the AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on 16 April 1917th From the end of May 1917 the boat was assigned to the II. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Wilhelmshaven .
U 100 led eight during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. Eight merchant ships with a total tonnage of 27,625 GRT were sunk. In addition to ships of the war opponents, this also included ships flying the flags of neutral countries.
The largest ship sunk by U 100 was the British passenger ship Lake Michigan with 9,288 GRT. The Lake Michigan was sunk on April 16, 1918 on her voyage from Liverpool to St. John about 93 nautical miles northwest of Eagle Island ( County Mayo , Ireland ). One person was killed.
Whereabouts
U 100 was one of the boats that survived the war and was delivered to the United Kingdom in November 1918 . Scrapping took place in 1922 in Swansea ( South Wales ).
Commanders
- Kapitänleutnant Freiherr Degenhart von Loë (May 31, 1917 to September 30, 1918)
- Captain Friedrich Götting (October 1, 1918 to November 11, 1918)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 136.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 123.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 69.
- ↑ According to www.uboat.net , ten ships with a total of 34,505 tons were sunk and two ships with a total of 5,272 tons were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 100 (Engl.)
- ↑ D / S Lake Michigan on www.wrecksite.eu (Engl.)
- ↑ Lake Michigan at www.norwayheritage.com (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Lake Michigan (Engl.)
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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