SM U-2 (Germany)

For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-2.

History

German Empire
Name:	U–2
Ordered:	4 March 1906^[1]
Builder:	Kaiserliche Werft Danzig^[1]
Cost:	1,548,000 Goldmark
Yard number:	DU 1
Launched:	18 June 1908^[1]
Commissioned:	18 July 1908^[1]
Decommissioned:	19 February 1919
Fate:	sold to Stinnes 3 February 1920 for shipbreaking
General characteristics ^[2]
Class and type:	German Type U 2 submarine
Displacement:	341 t (336 long tons) surfaced 430 t (420 long tons) submerged
Length:	45.42 m (149 ft) (o/a) 39.30 m (128 ft 11 in) (pressure hull)
Beam:	5.50 m (18 ft 1 in)
Draught:	3.05 m (10 ft)
Installed power:	2 × Daimler 6-cylinder four stroke paraffin motors with 600 PS (440 kW; 590 shp) 2 × SSW electric motors with 630 PS (460 kW; 620 shp) 550 rpm surfaced 685 rpm submerged
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × 1 m (3 ft 3 in) propellers
Speed:	13.2 kn (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged
Range:	1,600 nautical miles (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) surfaced 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged
Test depth:	30 m (98 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 dingi
Complement:	3 officers, 19 men
Armament:	4 × torpedo tubes (two bow, two stern) 6 45 centimetres (18 in) torpedoes
Service record
Part of:	Imperial German Navy:
Commanders:	Friedrich Lützow
Operations:	none
Victories:	No ships sunk or damaged

SM U-2 was a German U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. Only one of the type, sometimes called German Type U 2 submarine, was built. U-2 was ordered from Kaiserliche Werft of Danzig on 4 March 1906, launched on 18 June 1908, and commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 18 July 1908. She conducted no war patrols and spent World War I as a training platform.

After Germany's surrender, she was decommissioned on 19 February 1919 and sold for shipbreaking to Stinnes on 3 February 1920.

Citations

1 2 3 4 Rössler, p. 15.
↑ Gröner 1991, pp. 3-4.

References

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 2". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 26 February 2007.

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