SM U 16
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | Single boat | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Displacement: | 489 tons (above water) 627 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 57.80 m | |
| Width: | 6.00 m | |
| Draft: | 3.36 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 3.65 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 48-78 s | |
| Drive: | Petroleum motors 1200 HP E-machines 1160 HP |
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| Speed: | 15.6 knots (above water) 10.7 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes 1 × revolver cannon (until the end of 1914) 1 × 5 cm gun (from 1915) |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 25 men |
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| Successes: | 10 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk on February 8, 1919 on the delivery voyage in the North Sea. | |
SM U 16 was a petroleum-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 16 ran on August 29, 1911 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 28 December 1911th The commissioning commander of the submarine was Paul Clarenbach .
U 16 carried out thirteen war missions between 1914 and 1918. The crew of the submarine sank 10 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 11,476 GRT .
U 16 survived the First World War without being sunk themselves.
Whereabouts
U 16 sank on February 8, 1919 on the delivery voyage to the Entente as a result of an accident in the North Sea. As an approximate position of the lower transition point following coordinates are valid: 53 ° 59 ' N , 8 ° 25' O .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 88.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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