SM U 113
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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 111 - U 114 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 282 | |
| Construction contract: | May 5, 1916 | |
| Launch: | September 29, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | February 23, 1918 | |
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| 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: | 2 | |
| Successes: | 4 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to France on November 20, 1918; Wrecked in Brest in 1921 | |
SM U 113 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
construction
U 113 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 29 September in 1917 by the stack ran.
Calls
U 113 was put into service on February 23, 1918 and assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only in command was Kapitänleutnant Philipp Recke (February 23, 1918 to November 11, 1918).
U 113 introduced two during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. It sank four merchant ships with a total tonnage of 6,648 GRT . These included a Belgian and a British ship as well as two ships flying the flag of neutral Denmark .
The largest ship sunk by U 113 was the armed British cargo ship Clan MacNab with 4,675 GRT. The ballasted ship was hit on August 4, 1918 on its voyage from Plymouth to Glasgow about 14 nautical miles north-northwest of Pendeen Lighthouse by two torpedoes and sunk. 22 people were killed.
Whereabouts
U 113 was delivered to France on November 20, 1918 . It was scrapped in Brest in July 1921 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 139.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit by U 113 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Clan Macnab (Engl.)
- ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: D / S Clan MacNab (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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