SM U 122
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull deep-sea boat Large mine submarine (UE II) War mission L |
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| Series: | U 122 - U 126 | |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | |
| Build number: | 299 | |
| Construction contract: | May 27, 1916 | |
| Launch: | December 9, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | May 4, 1918 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 1163 tons (above water) 1468 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 82.00 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 1235 PS |
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| Speed: | 14.7 knots (above water) 7.2 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 4 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × stern mine tube (14 torpedoes, min. 42 mines) 1 × 15.0 cm deck gun |
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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 36 men |
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| Calls: | 1 | |
| Successes: | 1 sunk merchant ship | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to Great Britain on November 26, 1918; Stranded and broken up on the British east coast in 1921 | |
SM U 122 was a diesel-electric mines - Submarine of Class P II of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used.
commitment
U 122 was commissioned on May 27, 1916 expired on December 9, 1917 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on 4 May 1918th The boat was assigned to the I. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Brunsbüttel . The first and only in command was Lieutenant Commander Alfred Korte.
U 122 led a during World War II company in the eastern North Atlantic through. It sank the Icelandic fishing trawler Njordur with 278 GRT on October 18, 1918 northwest of Ireland .
Whereabouts
After the armistice , U 122 was extradited to the United Kingdom on November 26, 1918 . During the transfer to the scrapping site, the boat stranded on the British east coast in 1921 and was scrapped.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 136ff.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit by U 122 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 69
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
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