SM U-2 (Germany)
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Name | U–2 |
Ordered | 4 March 1906[1] |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig[1] |
Cost | 1,548,000 Goldmark |
Yard number | 1 |
Launched | 18 June 1908[1] |
Commissioned | 18 July 1908[1] |
Decommissioned | 19 February 1919 |
Fate | Sold to Stinnes 3 February 1920 for shipbreaking |
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Class and type | German Type U 2 submarine |
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Beam | 5.50 m (18 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 3.05 m (10 ft) |
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Test depth | 30 m (98 ft) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dingi |
Complement | 3 officers, 19 men |
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Commanders: | Friedrich Lützow |
Operations: | none |
Victories: | No ships sunk or damaged |
SM U-2 was a German U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. Only one of the type, sometimes called German Type U 2 submarine, was built. U-2 was ordered from Kaiserliche Werft of Danzig on 4 March 1906, launched on 18 June 1908, and commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 18 July 1908. She conducted no war patrols and spent World War I as a training platform.
After Germany's surrender, she was decommissioned on 19 February 1919 and sold for shipbreaking to Stinnes on 3 February 1920.
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d Rössler 1985, p. 15.
- ^ Gröner 1991, pp. 3–4.
References
[edit]- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. German Warships 1815–1945. Vol. 2. Translated by Thomas, Keith; Magowan, Rachel. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-593-4.
- Rössler, Eberhard (1985). Die deutschen U-Boote und ihre Werften: U-Bootbau bis Ende des 1. Weltkriegs, Konstruktionen für das Ausland und die Jahre 1935–1945 [The German Submarines and Their Shipyards: Submarine Construction Until the End of the First World War] (in German). Vol. I. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-5213-7.
- Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X
External links
[edit]- Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: U 2". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 26 February 2007.