SM U 105
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 SM U 105 as Jean-Autric of the French Navy |
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean- going boat official draft from MS -type war mission K |
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| Series: | U 105 - U 110 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 274 | |
| Construction contract: | May 5, 1916 | |
| Launch: | May 16, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | 4th July 1917 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 798 tons (above water) 1000 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 71.55 m | |
| Width: | 6.30 m | |
| Draft: | 3.90 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.15 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-66 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.4 knots (above water) 8.4 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 4 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (12-16 torpedoes) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 1917: 2 1918: 4 |
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| Successes: | 19 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to France on November 20, 1918; in service there as Jean-Autric until 1935 | |
SM U 105 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used. In the interwar period , the boat was part of the French Navy as Jean-Autric . It was scrapped just before the start of World War II .
Calls
U 105 was commissioned on May 5, 1916 expired on 16 May 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on July 4 1917th From September 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only German commander was Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Strackerjan.
U 105 led six during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic through. 19 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 55,834 GRT were sunk. In addition to ships of the war opponents, this also included the Norwegian cargo ship Sarpfos with 1,458 GRT.
The largest ship sunk by U 105 was the British cargo ship Milwaukee with 7,323 GRT. The Milwaukee was sunk on August 31, 1918 on her voyage from London to Montreal about 260 nautical miles southwest of Fastnet ( Ireland ). A person was killed in the process.
Whereabouts
On November 20, 1918, U 105 was delivered to France as spoils of war . There the boat was put back into service on January 21, 1922 as Jean-Autric in the French Navy. On January 27, 1935, the boat was assigned to the reserve . It was removed from the list of ships on August 24, 1935. In August 1936, it was transferred from Cherbourg to Brest , where it was sold for scrapping. The final demolition finally took place in 1938.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 139.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 124.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 69.
- ↑ According to www.uboat.net , two ships were also damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 105 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Milwaukee (Engl.)
- ↑ Milwaukee on www.wrecksite.eu (Engl.)
- ↑ Distribution of German submarines after the First World War (including SM U 105 ) according to www.dubm.de ( Memento of the original of March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Where to go to sous-marin.france.pagesperso-orange.fr
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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