SM U 119

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SM U 119
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German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge)
René Audry (RA)
French Republic (Marine Gösch)
Construction data
Submarine type: Two-hull deep-sea boat
Large mine submarine (UE II)
War mission L
Series: U 117 - U 121
Builder: AG Vulcan, Hamburg
Build number: 93
Construction contract: May 27, 1916
Launch: April 4, 1918
Commissioning: June 20, 1918
Technical specifications
Displacement: 1164 tons (above water)
1512 tons (under water)
Length: 81.52 m
Width: 7.42 m
Draft: 4.22 m
Pressure body ø: 4.50 - 4.90 m
Max. Diving depth: 75 m
Dive time: 30 s
Drive: Diesel engines 2400 PS
E-machines 1200 PS
Speed: 14.7 knots (above water)
7.0 knots (under water)
Armament: 4 × 50 cm
bow
torpedo tube 2 × stern mine tube (14 torpedoes, min. 42 mines)
1 × 15.0 cm deck gun
Mission data
Commander:
  • Edmund Pauli
Crew (target strength): 4 officers
36 men
Calls: 1
Successes: no
Whereabouts: extradited to France on November 24, 1918; until 1937 in service as René Audry

SM U 119 was a diesel-electric mines - Submarine of Class P II of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used. In the interwar period , the boat was called René Audry in the service of the French Navy . In 1938 it was scrapped.

commitment

U 119 was commissioned on May 27, 1916 expired on April 4, 1918 at the AG Vulcan in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on 20 June 1918th The boat was assigned to the I. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Brunsbüttel . The first and only German commander was Kapitänleutnant Edmund Pauli.

U 119 carried out an enterprise during the First World War . No ship was sunk or damaged in the process.

Whereabouts

On November 24, 1918, U 119 was delivered to France as spoils of war . There the boat was from January 6, 1922 to September 6, 1937 as René Audry in the service of the French Navy. It was deleted from the list of ships on October 7, 1937. On September 2, 1938, it was sold to Cherbourg and scrapped.

Individual evidence

  1. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 136ff.
  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. Distribution of German submarines after the First World War (including René Audry ex. SM U 119 ) according to www.dubm.de ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dubm.de
  5. whereabouts to sous-marin.france.pagesperso-orange.fr (French)

literature

  • Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .

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