SM U-13 in the Harbour of Kiel (first boat left) | |
History | |
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Germany | |
Name | U-13 |
Ordered | 23 February 1908 |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
Cost | 2,101,070 Goldmark |
Yard number | 8 |
Laid down | 1908 |
Launched | 16 December 1911 |
Commissioned | 25 April 1912 |
Fate | Sunk in the North Sea at an unknown time and location between August 6 and August 12, 1914 through accidental cause |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | German Type U 13 submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 57.88 m (189 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Draught | 3.44 m (11 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dingi |
Complement | 4 officers, 25 men |
Armament | 4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 each bow and stern) with 6 torpedoes |
Service record | |
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Commanders: |
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Operations: | 1 patrol |
Victories: | None |
SM U-13 [Note 1] was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-13 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
She had left Heligoland on 6 August 1914 and was not heard from again. She may have been a victim of the German defensive minefield in Heligoland Bight, or from an accident or mechanical failure.
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