Officers, crewmen and a former prisoner of war, Lt. Frank L. Muller, USNRF, Executive Officer of USS Ticonderoga (standing third from right, wearing his uniform and a civilian cap), on the submarine's foredeck, while she was passing through the Kiel Canal on the way to Harwich, England to be surrendered, 28 November 1918. |
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| Name: | U-152 |
| Ordered: | 29 November 1916 |
| Builder: | Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg |
| Laid down: | 20 May 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1917 |
| Fate: | Surrendered, November 1918 Sunk, 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type U 151 submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,512 long tons (1,536 t) surfaced 1,875 long tons (1,905 t) submerged |
| Length: | 65 m (213 ft) overall 57 m (187 ft) pressure hull |
| Beam: | 8.9 m (29 ft) overall 5.8 m (19 ft) pressure hull |
| Draught: | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Surfaced: 800 hp Submerged: 800 hp |
| Speed: | 12.4 knots (23.0 km/h; 14.3 mph) surfaced 5.2 knots (9.6 km/h; 6.0 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 25,000 mi (40,000 km) at 6 kn (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) surfaced 65 mi (105 km) at 3 kn (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | Calculated crush depth: 50 m (160 ft) |
| Complement: | 56 officers & ratings |
| Armament: | • 2 × bow torpedo tubes (18 torpedoes) • 2 × 105 mm (4 in) deck guns with 1672 rounds |
SM U-152 was a German Type U 151 submarine of the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I.
Built at Hamburg, the submarine was commissioned in October 1917. Initially intended as a submersible merchantman for transporting critical war materiel through the British blockade, she was converted to a combat ship while under construction.
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U-152 was actively employed in the Atlantic during the last year of the conflict. Among her victims were two American schooners, Julia Frances (sunk on 27 January 1918) and A.E. Whyland (sunk on 13 March 1918), the Norwegian barque Stifinder (boarded and scuttled on 13 October 1918), and the U.S. Navy cargo ship USS Ticonderoga. The latter was sunk, after a two-hour gun battle, with heavy casualties among her crew and passengers, on 30 September 1918. The previous day, 29 September, the submarine had also fought a gun battle with the Navy oiler USS George G. Henry, but despite being badly damaged the American ship escaped.
After returning to Germany in November 1918, at the end of her final wartime cruise, U-152 went to Harwich, England, where she was surrendered to the British. U-152 was deliberately sunk by the Royal Navy in July 1921.[1]
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