SM U-138

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Career (German Empire)
Name: U-138
Ordered: 27 May 1916
Builder: Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Launched: 12 January 1917
Commissioned: 26 March 1918
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type Mittel U submarine
Displacement: 808 tons surfaced
946 tons submerged
1160 tons (total)
Length: 70.60 m (overall)
55.55 m (pressure hull)
Beam: 6.30 m (overall)
4.15 m (pressure hull)
Draught: 4.02 m
Propulsion: 2400 hp surfaced
1200 hp submerged
Speed: 16.8 knots surfaced
9.1 knots submerged
Range: 11,220 miles surfaced 56 miles submerged
Complement: 39 men
Armament: 16 torpedoes (4/2 in bow/stern tubes)
150mm deck gun with 220 rounds
88mm deck gun

SM U-138 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-138 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. [1]

References

  1. "U-138". Retrieved 22 January 2010. 
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