SM U 126

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SM U 126
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German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge)
Construction data
Submarine type: Two-hull deep-sea boat
Large mine submarine (UE II)
War mission L
Series: U 122 - U 126
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Build number: 303
Construction contract: May 27, 1916
Launch: June 16, 1918
Commissioning: October 7, 1918
Technical specifications
Displacement: 1163 tons (above water)
1468 tons (under water)
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
Speed: 14.7 knots (above water)
7.2 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
Commanders:
Crew (target strength): 4 officers
36 men
Calls: no patrols
Successes: no
Whereabouts: extradited to Great Britain on November 22, 1918; Wrecked in Upnor in 1923

SM U 126 was a diesel-electric mines - Submarine of Class P II of the German Imperial Navy in the First World War .

Commissioning

U 126 was commissioned on May 27, 1916 expired on 16 June 1918 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on October 7 1918th The first and only German commander was Kapitänleutnant Otto Wünsche .

U 126 introduced during the First World War, no company by, and therefore could not submerge any ship or damage.

Whereabouts

On November 22, 1918, U 126 was extradited to the United Kingdom . In 1923 it was scrapped in Upnor ( Borough of Medway , southern England ).

Notes and individual references

  1. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 124.
  2. 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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