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SM U-10 (Germany)
Submarine U-10 at full speed (LOC) (6358167139)
U-10
Career (Germany) War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918
Name: U-10
Ordered: 15 July 1908
Builder: Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Cost: 2,140,000 Goldmark
Launched: 24 January 1911
Commissioned: 31 August 1911
Fate: 30 June 1916 - Probably mined in Gulf of Finland. 29 dead (all hands lost).
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type U 9 submarine
Displacement: 493 metric tons (543 short tons) ↑
611 metric tons (674 short tons) ↓
Length: 57.38 m (188.3 ft)
Beam: 6 m (19.7 ft)[1]
Draught: 3.55 m (11.6 ft)[2]
Propulsion: 2 shafts
2 × Körting 6-cylinder and 2 × Körting 8-cylinder two stroke paraffin motors with 900 PS (890 hp)
2 × SSW electric motors with 1,040 PS (1,030 hp)
550 rpm ↑
600 rpm ↓
Speed: 14.2 kn (26.3 km/h; 16.3 mph) ↑
8.1 kn (15.0 km/h; 9.3 mph) ↓submerged[3]
Range: 1,800 nmi (3,300 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
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[4] (two bow, two stern, six torpedoes)[5]
1 × 5 cm (2.0 in) SK L/40 gun
1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss gun

SM U-10 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-10 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.

References[]

  1. Fitzsimons, p.2534.
  2. Fitzsimons, p.2534.
  3. Fitzsimons, p.2534.
  4. Fitzsimons, p.2534.
  5. Fitzsimons, p.2534.

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Coordinates: 59°30′N 21°00′E / 59.5°N 21°E / 59.5; 21

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