SM U 111
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| USS U-111 | ||
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 The former SM U 111 in service with the US Navy, 1919 |
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| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean- going boat official draft from MS -type war mission K |
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| Series: | U 111 - U 114 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 280 | |
| Construction contract: | May 5, 1916 | |
| Launch: | September 5, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | December 30, 1917 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 798 tons (above water) 996 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 71.55 m | |
| Width: | 6.30 m | |
| Draft: | 3.76 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.15 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-66 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2300 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: | 4th | |
| Successes: | 3 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to the victorious powers on November 20, 1918; 1919–1921 part of the US Navy as USS U-111 ; Sunk in 1921 when it was blown up off Virginia | |
SM U 111 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used. After the war the boat was used in exhibitions and tests by the US Navy under the name USS U-111 .
construction
U 111 was commissioned on May 5, 1916. The Bremer Vulkanwerft in Vegesack took over the manufacture of the hull . It was completed at the Germania shipyard in Kiel , where the boat on 5 September in 1917 by the stack ran.
Calls
U 111 was put into service on December 30, 1917. After the test run on March 17, 1918, it was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only German commander was Kapitänleutnant Hans Beyersdorff (December 30, 1917 to November 11, 1918). U 111 was the only submarine that had a clergyman on board (Wilhelm Meinhold, naval pastor).
U 111 led four during World War enterprises around the British Isles by. Three merchant ships - a British, a Danish and a Norwegian - with a total tonnage of 3,011 GRT were sunk.
The largest ship sunk by U 111 was the British cargo ship Boscastle (2,346 GRT). The ship was torpedoed on April 7, 1918 on its voyage from Barry to Scapa Flow about 14 nautical miles north-northwest of Strumble Head in the St. George's Canal . 18 people lost their lives.
Whereabouts
On November 20, 1918, U 111 was first transferred to Harwich by the victorious powers, to be later extradited to the United States . From March 1919, the boat was in service with the US Navy. The command was given to Lt. Comdr. Freeland A. Daubin. In April 1919, U-111 crossed the North Atlantic and arrived in New York in time for a promotional event . In the following months it was used for exhibitions on the New England coast . Later it was used in military experiments. In July 1921 it sank when it was blown off Cape Charles ( Virginia ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 111 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: D / S Boscastle
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Boscastle (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog : German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
- ↑ Deutsches U-Boot-Museum: Distribution of the submarines of the Imperial Navy (including SM U 111 ) ( 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.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
Web links
- SM U 111 on www.uboat.net (engl.)
- USS U-111 at www.historycentral.com (English)
- Photos of USS U-111
- Photo of the command tower of USS U-111
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