SM U-91

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Career (German Empire)
Name: U-91
Ordered: 23 June 1915
Builder: Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Yard number: Werk 35
Laid down: 1 August 1916
Launched: 14 April 1917
Commissioned: 17 September 1917
Fate: Surrendered 26 November 1918
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type U 87 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)
105mm deck gun with 220 rounds
88mm deck gun

SM U-91 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-91 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.[1]

References

  1. "U-91". Retrieved 25 January 2010. 
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