SM U 102
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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: | 253 | |
| Launch: | May 12, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | June 18, 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: | 7th | |
| Successes: | 5 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk east of Orkney in late September 1918 (presumably hit by a mine) | |
SM U 102 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 102 was launched on 12 May 1917 at the AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on 18 June 1917th From August 1917 the boat was assigned to the II. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Wilhelmshaven .
U 102 led seven during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic through. Five merchant ships with a total tonnage of 13,245 GRT were sunk. In addition to ships of the war opponents, these included ships flying the flags of the neutral states of Denmark and Spain .
On August 21, 1917, U 102 torpedoed the British auxiliary ship Virginian northwest of Tory Island ( Ireland ). The 10,757 GRT former passenger ship was only damaged in the process. Three people were killed in the attack.
The largest ship sunk by U 102 was the British cargo ship Cheviot Range with almost 3,700 GRT. The Cheviot Range was sunk on February 21, 1918 on its voyage from Tuticorin, India to Great Britain about 25 nautical miles south of Lizard Point in Cornwall . 27 people were killed.
Whereabouts
In September 1918 U 102 ran out on a patrol around the British Isles . When passing the Northern Barrage - an extensive mine belt in the northern North Sea - the boat sank, presumably as a result of a mine hit. The wreck was found east of the Orkney Islands by sonar in 2006 and identified as U 102 by divers in 2007 .
Commanders
- Lieutenant Captain Ernst Killmann (August 5, 1917 to November 25, 1917)
- Captain Kurt Beitzen (November 26, 1917 to September 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 , five ships with a total of 9,340 tons were sunk and one ship with 10,757 tons was damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 102 (English)
- ↑ Ships hit during WWI - Virginian (English)
- ↑ The Virginian in the English language Wikipedia.
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Cheviot Range (English)
- ↑ Cheviot Range on www.wrecksite.eu (English)
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 57.
- ↑ World War 1 Submarines Found by Anglian Sovereign. Archived from the original on November 12, 2009 ; accessed on May 27, 2016 .
- ↑ U 102 on www.wrecksite.eu (English)
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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