SM U 126
SM U 126 ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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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: | 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) |
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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 | ||
Commanders: | ||
Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 36 men |
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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
- ↑ 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 .