SM U 125
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 SM U 125 in Yokosuka (Japan), 1919 |
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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: | 302 | |
| Construction contract: | May 27, 1916 | |
| Launch: | May 26, 1918 | |
| Commissioning: | September 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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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 36 men |
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| Calls: | no patrols | |
| Successes: | no | |
| Whereabouts: | extradited to Japan on November 26, 1918; in service as O 1 ; changing uses until 1935 | |
SM U 125 was a diesel-electric mines - Submarine of Class P II of the German Imperial Navy in the First World War . After the war, the submarine briefly served as O 1 ( Japanese ○ 一 潜水 艦 , maru ichi sensuikan ) in the Imperial Japanese Navy .
Commissioning
U 125 was commissioned on May 27, 1916 expired on 26 May 1918 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on September 4 1918th The boat was assigned to the I. U- Flotilla in Helgoland and Brunsbüttel . The first and only German commander was Kapitänleutnant Hans Scabell.
U 125 introduced during the First World War, no company by, and therefore could not submerge any ship or damage.
Whereabouts
Shortly after the end of the war, on November 26, 1918, the U 125 was delivered to the Japanese Empire . Like the U 46 ( O 2 ) and U 55 ( O 3 ), the boat was part of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1920 and 1921. The boat number was O 1 . Between January and March 1921, the boat in the Yokosuka naval port was partially disarmed. Between March 1924 and January 1925 it was used as a floating dock for the Naval School in Kure . In 1925, the remains of the boat in Yokosuka were converted into a test vehicle for submarine salvage. On August 19, 1931, the boat was put back into service as an auxiliary ship with the number 2900 and was in service until 1935.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 136ff.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 124.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 91.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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