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SM U-1 (Germany)

Coordinates: 48°7′N 11°35′E / 48.117°N 11.583°E / 48.117; 11.583
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For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-1.
History
German Empire
NameU 1[2]
Ordered3 December 1904[1]
BuilderGermaniawerft, Kiel
Cost1,905,000 Goldmark[2]
Yard number119[1]
Laid downOctober 1905[1]
Launched4 August 1906[1]
Commissioned14 December 1906[1]
Decommissioned19 February 1919[2]
Fatesold to Germaniawerft, donated to Deutsches Museum[2]
StatusOn display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany[2]
General characteristics
TypeGerman Type U 1 submarine
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238 tonnes (234 long tons) surfaced
283 tonnes (279 long tons) submerged[2]
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42.39 m (139 ft 1 in) (o/a)
32.5 m (106 ft 8 in) (pressure hull)[2]
Beam3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)[2]
Draught3.17 m (10 ft 5 in)[2]
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1  ×   Körting 6-cylinder two stroke kerosene motor with 400 PS (290 kW)
2  ×   modyn by Deutsche Elektriizitäts-Werke Aachen with 400 PS (290 kW)
500 rpm surfaced
500 rpm submerged[2]
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2 shafts
2  ×  1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) propellers
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10.8 knots (20.0 km/h; 12.4 mph) surfaced
8.7 knots (16.1 km/h; 10.0 mph) submerged[2]
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1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)[2]
Test depth30 m (98 ft)[2]
Complement2 officers, 10 men (later 3/19)[2]
Armament1 x 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tube with 3 C/03 torpedoes[2]
Service record
Part of: Imperial German Navy
Operations: 0 patrols
Victories: No ships sunk or damaged

SM U-1, also known in English as the German Type U 1 submarine, was the first U-boat class of the U-boat series of submarines produced for the German Empire's Imperial German Navy. Only one was built. The U-1 was constructed by Germaniawerft in Kiel and was commissioned on 14 December 1906.[3] When World War I began in 1914, the U-1 was deemed obsolete and was used only for training until 19 February 1919, when it was struck by another vessel while on an exercise.

Design

The U-Boat was a redesigned Karp class submarine by Spanish engineer Raimondo Lorenzo d'Equevilley Montjustin working for the German armaments company Krupp. The main improvements over the export Karp class included trim tanks instead of a moveable weight, a redesigned forecastle to improve seagoing ability, a 10 cm (3.9 in) larger diameter and strengthened pressure hull which prevented oil leakage from the external tanks, a rearrangement of the internal equipment and a heavier ballast keel.

The Imperial German Navy avoided the use of gasoline due to the perceived risk of fires and explosions that had caused many accidents in early submarines, and instead of the gasoline engines that had powered the Karp boats, U-1 was given much safer Körting kerosene engines. While normally kerosene engines were started using gasoline, the U-1's engines avoided even this and instead used electrically-heated air.

The Körting engines could not be reversed and also had to run at full speed, since their rpm could not be varied to any useful extent, and as a consequence U-1 was fitted with adjustable-pitch propellers to allow her speed to be controlled. These propellers were abandoned in later designs due to their poor efficiency, kerosene-electric propulsion being used instead before diesel propulsion was finally installed in the U-19 class in 1912-1913.

History

Construction on U-1 began in the autumn of 1904. The boat began its trials in August 1906, a year later than originally planned.

After suffering damage from a collision while on a training exercise in 1919, U-1 was sold to the Germaniawerft foundation at the Deutsches Museum in Munich where it was restored and can be viewed on display. A large portion of the starboard hull has been removed to allow visitors to see the submarine's interior.

See also

References

General
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  • "U-boat.net". List of all U-Boats – U 1. Retrieved 3 August 2006.
  • Jameson, William (1965). The Most Formidable Thing: The Story of the Submarine from Its Earliest Days to the End of World War I. Rupert Hart-Davis. ISBN 0-7603-1345-8. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Miller, David (2003). The Illustrated Directory of Submarines. MBI Pub. Co. ISBN 0-7603-1345-8. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X
  • Showell, Jak (2006). The U-Boat Century, German Submarine Warfare 1906-2006. Great Britain: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-241-0. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Gröner, Erich (1985). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher (in German). Vol. III. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-4802-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Rössler, Eberhard (1985). U-Bootbau bis Ende des 1. Weltkriegs, Konstruktionen für das Ausland und die Jahre 1935-1945 (in German). Vol. I. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-5213-7. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Specific
  1. ^ a b c d e Rössler, p. 26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Gröner, p. 26.
  3. ^ Showell, p. 30

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