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SM U 106 was a submarine of the Imperial Navy in the First World War . U 106 led a company in the eastern North Atlantic through. A warship was sunk and a merchant ship was damaged.
commitment
U 106 was commissioned on May 5, 1916 expired on 12 June 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 28 July 1917th From the beginning of September 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only in command was Lieutenant Captain Hans Hufnagel.
U 106 left Emden on September 8, 1917. The planned route was past the Shetland Islands into the Northern Channel of the Irish Sea. During this patrol, U 106 sank the British destroyer Contest with 957 GRT on September 18, 1917 and damaged the British cargo ship SS City of Lincoln (5,867 GRT). When the contest went down , 35 people were killed. 60 survivors were taken in by the City of Lincoln .
Whereabouts
On October 7, 1917, two radio commands were issued to U 106 , each of which was acknowledged with “Not understood”. The content of the radio commands was a new meeting point because a new British mine network had been discovered near Terschelling . But the escort and mine clearance ships dispatched to the exit of the mine-free passage, which were supposed to receive U 106 , waited in vain. October 7, 1917 is the last contact date. The day of the sinking is given between October 7th and 9th 1917, the location near Terschelling and the reason for the sinking by mines.
In October 2009 a survey ship of the Dutch Navy located a wreck about 40 nautical miles north of Terschelling. Initially there was hope that the Dutch submarine O-13 , which had been missing since June 18, 1940 , would have been found. In December 2009, images of the wreck at a depth of 40 meters were taken with an underwater camera. Further investigations followed in February 2010 and divers succeeded in retrieving an air tank 300 cm long and 44 cm in diameter. A brass plaque with serial numbers was uncovered on the recovered steel cylinder, which enabled the U 106 to be unequivocally identified . After German authorities completed the search for any survivors, the information was released for publication. The wreck of U 106 is to remain in place and has been declared a war cemetery.
literature
- Eberhard Rössler : History of the German submarine building. Volume 1. Bernard & Graefe Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-86047-153-8 .
- Eberhard Rössler: The submarines of the Imperial Navy. Bernard & Graefe Verlag 1997. ISBN 3-7637-5963-8 .
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Manfred Pawlak Verlags GmbH. Herrschingen 1990. ISBN 3-88199-687-7 .
- Harald Bendert: The submarines of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918. Mittler & Sohn Verlag 2000. ISBN 3-8132-0713-7 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Muller. Erlangen 1993. p. 124.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 106 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Muller. Erlangen 1993. p. 139.
- ↑ a b BNO News March 16, 2011, Article German submarine lost during WWI found off Dutch coast (accessed on March 23, 2011)
- ↑ www.uboat.net Ships hit during WWI - Contest (engl.)
- ↑ Contest on www.wrecksite.eu (engl.)
- ^ Arno Spindler : The trade war with U-boats. Volume 4. ES Mittler & Sohn. Berlin 1941. p. 431.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing 1998. ISBN 3-924896-43-7 . P. 37.
- ↑ Dwight R. Messimer: Lost: World War I U-boat losses. Naval Institute Press 2002. ISBN 978-1-55750-475-3 . P. 119.
- ^ RH Gibson, Maurice Prendergast: The German Submarine War 1914-1918. Reprint. Periscope Publishing Ltd. 2002. ISBN 978-1-904381-08-2 . P. 209.
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