SM U 11
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 SM U 11 before the First World War |
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 9 - U 12 | |
| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig | |
| Displacement: | 493 tons (above water) 611 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 57.38 m | |
| Width: | 6.00 m | |
| Draft: | 3.13 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 3.65 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 50-90 s | |
| Drive: | Petroleum motors 1000 HP E-machines 1160 HP |
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| Speed: | 14.2 knots (above water) 8.1 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes 1 revolver cannon 1 × 5 cm cannon |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 25 men |
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| Successes: | no | |
| Whereabouts: | Left Zeebrugge on December 9, 1914. Probably ran into a British mine. | |
SM U 11 was a petroleum-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 11 was launched on April 2, 1910 at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig and was put into service on September 21, 1910. The commissioning commander of the submarine was Oberleutnant zur See Walter Forstmann . On August 1, 1914, Lieutenant Ferdinand von Suchodoletz took command.
U 11 carried out two war missions, in which there were no sinkings.
Whereabouts
On December 9, 1914 was U 11 to a patrol from the port of Zeebrugge from. The further course of events is not exactly known. The collision with the mine of a British barrier probably caused the total loss of the submarine. All 29 crew members including the commander of Suchodoletz were killed. The wreck of U 11 was later found at position 51 ° 6 ′ N , 1 ° 29 ′ E, in the Strait of Dover , but not lifted. An average due to human error or technical defects are also named as possible causes of loss .
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 88.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 10.
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