SM U 110

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SM U 110
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U-Boat 110, a general view looking aft (8770771018) .jpg
The wreck of the U 110 after recovery, 1918
Construction data
Submarine type: Two-hull ocean-
going boat official draft from MS -type
war mission K
Series: U 105 - U 110
Builder: Germania shipyard, Kiel
Build number: 279
Construction contract: May 5, 1916
Launch: July 28, 1917
Commissioning: September 25, 1917
Technical specifications
Displacement: 798 tons (above water)
1000 tons (under water)
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
Speed: 16.4 knots (above water)
8.4 knots (under water)
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
Mission data
Commanders:
  • Karl Albrecht Kroll
  • Otto von Schubert
Crew (target strength): 4 officers
32 men
Calls: 3
Successes: 9 sunk merchant ships
1 sunk Q-ship
Whereabouts: Sunk by British destroyers north of Ireland on March 15, 1918

SM U 110 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .

Calls

U 110 was commissioned on May 5, 1916 expired on 28 July 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on September 25 1917th In December 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum .

U 110 introduced three during World War enterprises around the British Isles by. Nine merchant ships with a total tonnage of 24,324 GRT were sunk. Also met on 24 December 1917, a torpedo from U 110 , the Q-Ship Penshurst in the Bristol Channel , which cost two lives and resulted in the loss of the ship.

The largest ship sunk by U 110 was the British passenger ship Amazon with over 10,000 GRT. The ship was torpedoed on March 15, 1918 on its voyage from Liverpool to Buenos Aires about 30 miles northwest of Malin Head . All passengers and crew were rescued by the British destroyer HMS Moresby , which then hunted U 110 .

Whereabouts

The SOS signal from the sinking Amazon alerted the two British destroyers Michael and Moresby . They discovered the spot where U 110 had dived shortly before and immediately threw depth charges . The U 110 was so badly damaged that the boat could no longer be removed. After dangerous diving maneuvers, the commander Karl Albrecht Kroll finally gave up the boat and let the crew disembark over water. However, only four men were found alive - the chief engineer and three seamen. U 110 received artillery hit by destroyers and fell roughly on the position 56 °  N , 8 °  F .

In September 1918 U 110 was recovered and taken to Wallsend . In a dry dock at Swan Hunter the boat was overtaken with an order to restore combat capability. After the armistice on November 11, 1918 , work was stopped. U 110 was towed from Wallsend to Northumberland Dock near Howdon on December 19, 1918 and then sold as scrap.

  • Pictures after the rescue in the dry dock in Wallsend

  • Exterior view

  • Control room electrics

  • Controls

  • Engine room

Commanders

  • Corvette Captain Karl Albrecht Kroll (September 25, 1917 to November 22, 1917 and December 12, 1917 to March 15, 1918)
  • Kapitänleutnant Otto von Schubert (November 22, 1917 to December 10, 1917)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 139.
  2. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 124.
  3. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 69.
  4. ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 110 (Engl.)
  5. ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Penshurst (Engl.)
  6. ^ HMS Penshurst in the English language Wikipedia
  7. ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: HMAV Penshurst
  8. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 119.
  9. ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Amazon (Engl.)
  10. ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: RMS Amazon
  11. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
  12. ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 45.
  13. ↑ Dwight R. Messimer: Lost - World War I U-Boat Losses. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2002, ISBN 1-55750-475-X , p. 121.
  14. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3240463/Inside-killing-machine-ghostly-century-old-images-German-WWI-U-Boat-raised-depths-North-Sea.html

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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