SM U-5 (Germany)

For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-5.

History
SM U-5 in the Harbour of Kiel (second boat left)
German Empire
Name:	U-5^[1]
Ordered:	8 April 1908^[1]
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel^[1]
Cost:	2,540,000 Goldmark
Yard number:	147^[1]
Laid down:	24 August 1908^[1]
Launched:	8 January 1910^[1]
Commissioned:	2 July 1910^[1]
Fate:	Sunk 18 December 1914. 29 dead.
General characteristics ^[2]
Class and type:	German Type U 5 submarine
Displacement:	505 t (497 long tons) surfaced 636 t (626 long tons) submerged
Length:	57.30 m (188.0 ft) (o/a) 43.10 m (141.4 ft) (pressure hull)
Beam:	5.60 m (18.4 ft) (o/a) 3.75 m (12.3 ft) (pressure hull)
Draught:	3.55 m (11.6 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × Körting 6-cylinder and 2 × Körting 8-cylinder two stroke Kerosene motors with 900 PS (890 hp) 2 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motors with 1,040 PS (1,030 hp) 550 rpm surfaced 600 rpm submerged
Speed:	13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) surfaced 10.2 knots (18.9 km/h; 11.7 mph) submerged
Range:	3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) surfaced 55 nmi (102 km; 63 mi) at 4.5 knots (8.3 km/h; 5.2 mph)
Test depth:	30 m (98 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 dingi
Complement:	4 officers, 24 men
Armament:	4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 each bow and stern) with 6 torpedoes 1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss gun
Service record
Part of:	I Flotilla 1 August – 18 December 1914
Commanders:	Kptlt. Johannes Lemmer^[3] 1 August – 18 December 1914
Operations:	2 patrols
Victories:	None

SM U-5 was a German Type U 5 U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. She was commissioned 2 July 1910 in Germaniawerft in Kiel. She served in World War I under the command of Kptlt. Johannes Lemmer, with no recorded sinkings of enemy ships on two patrols. She was lost in an accident off the Belgian coast on 18 December 1914, and sank with no survivors - all of her 29 crew members lost their lives.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rössler, p. 26.
↑ Gröner 1991, pp. 4-6.
↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boat commanders: Johannes Lemmer". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

Bibliography

Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. German Warships 1815–1945. 2. Translated by Thomas, Keith; Magowan, Rachel. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-593-4.
Rössler, Eberhard (1985). U-Bootbau bis Ende des 1. Weltkriegs, Konstruktionen für das Ausland und die Jahre 1935-1945. Die deutschen U-Boote und ihre Werften (in German). I. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-5213-7.
Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X

External links

Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: U 5". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 February 2007.

German Type U 5 submarine

U-5 U-6 U-7 U-8

Preceded by: Type U 3 Followed by: Type U 9 List of U-boats of Germany

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1914

Shipwrecks	8 Dec: SMS Gneisenau, SMS Leipzig, SMS Nürnberg, SMS Scharnhorst 9 Dec: SM U-11 13 Dec: Mesudiye 18 Dec: SM U-5 20 Dec: Curie, Montrose 27 Dec: HMS Success

1913 1914 1915 November 1914 January 1915

Coordinates: 51°23′N 3°11′E / 51.383°N 3.183°E / 51.383; 3.183

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