SM U-152
 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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 German Empire
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| Name: | U-152 |
| Ordered: | 29 November 1916 |
| Builder: | Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg |
| Laid down: | 20 May 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1917 |
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| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | German Type U 151 submarine |
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| Height: | 9.25 m (30 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 5.30 m (17 ft 5 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts, 2 × 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) propellers |
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| Range: | 25,000 nmi (46,000 km; 29,000 mi) at 5.5 knots (10.2 km/h; 6.3 mph) surfaced, 65 nmi (120 km; 75 mi) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 50 metres (160 ft) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 50 enlisted |
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SM U-152 was a German Type U 151 submarine of the Imperial German Navy 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.
Service history
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), the Spanish Giralda (sunk on 25 January 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.[2]
Gallery
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USS Ticonderoga in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts
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Newspaper report on the sinking of USS Ticonderoga
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Bark Stifinder sinking
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Two U.S. Navy officers captured when the submarine sank USS Ticonderoga on 30 September 1918. They are Lt. Frank L. Muller, USNRF (left), and Lt. (j.g) Junius H. Fulcher, USNRF
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USS George G. Henry
References
- ↑ Gröner 1991, pp. 20-21.
- ↑
- Innes McCartney (2002). Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel.
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.
- Bodo Herzog/Günter Schomaekers: Ritter der Tiefe – Die erfolgreichsten U-Bootkommandanten der Welt. Verlag Welsermühl, Wels und München 1976, ISBN 3-85339-136-2
- Jung, Dieter (2004). Die Schiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine 1914-1918 und ihr Verbleib [German Imperial Navy ships 1914-1918 and their fate] (in German). Bonn: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-6247-7.
- Paul Kemp: Die deutschen und österreichischen U-Boot Verluste in beiden Weltkriegen. Urbes Verlag Hans Jürgen Hansen, Gräfelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7
- Eberhard Möller / Werner Brack: Enzyklopädie deutscher U-Boote, Von 1904 bis zur Gegenwart, Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 3-613-02245-1
External links
- Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U-152
- Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: U 152". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net.
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