SM U 108
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| Léon Mignot (LM) | ||
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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: | 277 | |
| Construction contract: | May 5, 1916 | |
| Launch: | October 11, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | December 5, 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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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 3 | |
| Successes: | 1 sunk merchant ship | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to France on November 20, 1918; until 1935 in service as Léon Mignot | |
SM U 108 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War . In the interwar period , the boat was called Léon Mignot in the service of the French Navy . It was scrapped just before the start of World War II .
Calls
U 108 was commissioned on May 5, 1916 expired on 11 October 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 5 December 1917th The boat was then assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only German commander was Corvette Captain Martin Nitzsche.
U 108 introduced three during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic through. A merchant ship with a tonnage of 7,484 GRT was sunk.
The only ship sunk by U 108 was the British armed cargo ship Barunga , which was launched in June 1913 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft . The ship had sailed as Sumatra for the German-Australian Steamship Company and was confiscated in Sydney when the war began. The Barunga was on 15 July 1918 its journey from London to Australia approximately at the position 49 ° N , 10 ° W sunk. There were no fatalities.
Whereabouts
On November 20, 1918, U 108 was delivered to France as spoils of war . There the boat was put back into service on January 21, 1922 as Léon Mignot of the French Navy. It was removed from the list of ships in the summer of 1935. In May 1936 it was transferred to Brest . 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.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 108 (Engl.)
- ↑ Newspaper article on the fall of the SS Barunga
- ↑ Ships hit during WWI - Barunga (Engl.)
- ↑ Barunga on www.wrecksite.eu (Engl.)
- ↑ Distribution of German submarines after the First World War (including Léon Mignot ex. SM U 108 ) according to www.dubm.de ( Memento of the original from 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 .
Web links
- SM U 108 on www.uboat.net (engl.)
- Photo by Léon Mignot ex. SM U 108
- Léon Mignot on www.navypedia.org
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