SM U 101
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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: | 252 | |
| Launch: | April 1, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | May 15, 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 (from 1918) 2 (from 1918 1) × 8.8 cm deck gun |
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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 9 | |
| Successes: | 24 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to Great Britain on November 21, 1918; Wrecked in Marecambe in 1919/20 | |
SM U 101 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 101 was launched on 1 April 1917 at the AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on May 15, 1917th From July 1917 to November 1918 the boat was assigned to the II. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Wilhelmshaven .
U 101 led nine during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. 24 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 29,813 GRT were sunk. These included ships of the war opponents as well as ships flying the neutral flag of Denmark .
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On November 26, 1917, U 101 torpedoed the British tanker Crenella on its way from Queenstown to the United States. The 7,035 GRT ship was only damaged in the process and came back to Queenstown accompanied by the destroyer USS Cushing .
The largest ship sunk by U 101 was the armed British cargo ship Mexico City with 5,078 GRT. The Mexico City was sunk on February 5, 1918 on her voyage from Liverpool to Alexandria about 15 nautical miles west of South Stack ( Anglesey , Wales ). 29 people were killed.
Whereabouts
On November 21, 1918, U 101 was delivered to the United Kingdom as spoils of war . The scrapping took place in 1919 or 1920 in Morecambe ( Northern England ).
Commanders
- Kapitänleutnant Karl Koopmann (May 15, 1917 to December 19, 1917)
- Captain Carl-Siegfried von Georg (December 20, 1917 to June 17, 1918)
- Captain Friedrich Ulrich (June 18, 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 , 23 ships with a total of 26,253 tons were sunk and three ships with a total of 11,217 tons were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 101 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Crenella (Engl.)
- ↑ The Crenella in the English language Wikipedia.
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Mexico City (Engl.)
- ↑ Mexico City on www.wrecksite.eu (Engl.)
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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