For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-10.
| SM U-10 (Germany) | |
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File:Submarine U-10 at full speed (LOC) (6358167139).jpg U-10 | |
| Career (Germany) |  |
| 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 |
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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.
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Coordinates: 59°30′N 21°00′E / 59.5°N 21°E
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