SM U-11 (Germany)
![]() | |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | U-11 |
Ordered | 15 July 1908 |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
Cost | 2,140,000 Goldmark |
Yard number | 6 |
Launched | 2 April 1910 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1910 |
Fate | 9 December 1914 - Mined off the Belgian coast on 9 December 1914 at position 51°06′N 1°29′E / 51.100°N 1.483°E |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | German Type U 9 submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 57.38 m (188 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Draught | 3.13 m (10 ft 3 in) |
Installed power |
|
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 × 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) propellers |
Speed |
|
Range | 1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dingi |
Complement | 4 officers, 25 men |
Armament | 4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes (two bow, two stern, six torpedoes) |
Service record | |
Part of: |
|
Commanders: |
|
Operations: | 2 patrols |
Victories: | None |
SM U-11[Note 1] was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.
U-11 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
Citations
[edit]- ^ Gröner 1991, pp. 4–6.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boat commanders: Ferdinand von Suchodoletz". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
Bibliography
[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.
- Kemp, Paul (1997). U-boats destroyed, German submarine losses in the World Wars. London: Arms & Armour Press. p. 9. ISBN 1-85409-321-5.
External links
[edit]- Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: U 11". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net.