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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

SUBMARINES

U13 submarines (1912)

U13 1912

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
U13   8 KW Danzig 1909 16.12.1910 4.1912 sunk 9.8.1914
U14   9 KW Danzig 1909 11.7.1911 4.1912 sunk 5.6.1915
U15   10 KW Danzig 1909 18.9.1911 7.1912 sunk 9.8.1914

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

516 / 644

Length, m

57.9

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

3.44

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Körting petrol engines / 2 SSW electric motors

Power, h. p.

1200 / 1160

Max speed, kts

14.8 / 10.7

Fuel, t

petrol 64

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(14) / 90(5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 4 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 6)

Complement

29

Diving depth operational, m 50

Project history: Medium coastal submarines. Double-hulled.

Modernizations: 1915, U14: - 1 x 1 - 7.9/79; + 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

Naval service: U13 was rammed by British battleship 9.8.1914 in the North Sea. U14 was sunk by ramming and gunfire of British trawlers Hawk and Oceanic II 5.6.1915 in the North Sea. U15 was rammed by British cruiser Birmingham 9.8.1914 in the North Sea.

U13 1912

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