SM U-152

	U-152 departs at Kiel, 5 September 1918
History
German Empire
Name	U-152
Ordered	29 November 1916
Builder	Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg
Launched	20 May 1917
Commissioned	17 October 1917
Fate	Surrendered, November 1918; Scuttled English Channel 30 June 1921;
General characteristics
Class and type	German Type U 151 submarine
Displacement	1,512 tonnes (1,488 long tons) (surfaced); 1,875 tonnes (1,845 long tons) (submerged); 2,272 tonnes (2,236 long tons) (total);
Length	65.00 m (213 ft 3 in) (o/a); 57.00 m (187 ft) (pressure hull);
Beam	8.90 m (29 ft 2 in) (o/a); 5.80 m (19 ft) (pressure hull);
Height	9.25 m (30 ft 4 in)
Draught	5.30 m (17 ft 5 in)
Installed power	800 PS (590 kW; 790 bhp) (surfaced); 800 PS (590 kW; 790 bhp) (submerged);
Propulsion	2 × shafts, 2 × 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) propellers
Speed	12.4 knots (23.0 km/h; 14.3 mph) surfaced; 5.2 knots (9.6 km/h; 6.0 mph) submerged;
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
Armament	2 50 cm (20 in) bow torpedo tubes ; 18 torpedoes ; 2 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 deck guns with 1672 rounds; 2 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) Uk L/30 deck guns with 764 rounds;
Service record
Part of:	U-Kreuzer Flotilla; 20 October 1917 - 11 November 1918;
Commanders:	Kptlt. Constantin Kolbe; 20 October 1917 – 3 May 1918; KrvKpt. Gehrard von Zitzewitz; 4 May – 24 August 1918; Kptlt. Adolf Franz; 25 August – 15 November 1918;
Operations:	2 patrols
Victories:	19 merchant ships sunk ; (37,505 GRT); 3 merchant ships damaged ; (11,406 GRT);

Last updated August 25, 2023

SM U-152 was a German Type U 151 submarine of the Imperial German Navy during World War I.

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 was surrendered to the Allies at Harwich on 24 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. She was exhibited at Tower Bridge in London in December 1918, and then laid up at Portsmouth. On 30 June 1921, she was towed out into the English Channel and scuttled.^[2]^[3]

Summary of raiding history

Date	Name	Nationality	Tonnage^{[Note 1]}	Fate^[4]
25 January 1918	Giralda	Spain	2,194	Sunk
26 January 1918	Germano	Portugal	236	Sunk
26 January 1918	Serra Do Gerez	Portugal	257	Sunk
27 January 1918	Julia Frances	United States	183	Sunk
28 January 1918	Neptuno	Portugal	321	Sunk
5 February 1918	Sebastian	Spain	2,563	Sunk
9 February 1918	Ceferino	Spain	3,647	Sunk
15 February 1918	Neguri	Spain	1,859	Sunk
16 February 1918	Mar Caspio	Spain	2,723	Sunk
24 February 1918	Gaetana Costanzo	Kingdom of Italy	1,027	Sunk
26 February 1918	Siljestad	Norway	4,298	Sunk
6 March 1918	Elector	Portugal	134	Sunk
7 March 1918	Luigi	Kingdom of Italy	3,549	Sunk
13 March 1918	A. E. Whyland	United States	130	Sunk
16 March 1918	Ellaston	United Kingdom	3,192	Sunk
31 March 1918	Indien	Denmark	4,199	Sunk
3 April 1918	Elsie Birdett	United Kingdom	118	Sunk
11 September 1918	Constance	Denmark	199	Damaged
29 September 1918	USS George G. Henry	United States Navy	6,936	Damaged
30 September 1918	USS Ticonderoga	United States Navy	5,130	Sunk
14 October 1918	Stifinder	Norway	1,745	Sunk
15 October 1918	Messina	United Kingdom	4,271	Damaged

Gallery

USS Ticonderoga in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts
Newspaper report on the sinking of USS Ticonderoga
Bark Stifinder sinking
James Jonas Madison
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
USS George G. Henry
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.

Notes

↑ Merchant ship tonnages are in gross register tons. Military vessels are listed by tons displacement.

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References

↑ Gröner 1991, pp. 20–21.
↑
- McCartney, Innes (2002). Lost patrols : submarine wrecks of the English Channel. Penzance: Periscope. ISBN 978-1-90438-104-4.
↑ Dodson, Aidan; Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: the fate of enemy fleets after the two World Wars. Barnsley: Seaforth. pp. 54, 12. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1.
↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U 152". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

Bibliography

Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. German Warships 1815–1945. Vol. 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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[tonnage-4] Merchant ship tonnages are in gross register tons. Military vessels are listed by tons displacement.

[FOOTNOTEGröner199120–21-1] Gröner 1991, pp. 20–21.

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McCartney, Innes (2002). Lost patrols : submarine wrecks of the English Channel. Penzance: Periscope. ISBN 978-1-90438-104-4.

[mwAVM] McCartney, Innes (2002). Lost patrols : submarine wrecks of the English Channel. Penzance: Periscope. ISBN 978-1-90438-104-4.

[3] Dodson, Aidan; Cant, Serena (2020). Spoils of War: the fate of enemy fleets after the two World Wars. Barnsley: Seaforth. pp. 54, 12. ISBN 978-1-5267-4198-1.

[u152-5] Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U 152". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

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v t e German Type U 151 submarines
U-151 U-152 U-153 U-154 U-155 U-156 U-157
Preceded by: Type U 142 Followed by: Type UA
List of U-boats of Germany

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1921
Shipwrecks	3 Jan: UB-88 6 Jan: USS Coast Defense Battleship No. 2 20 Jan: HMS K5 31 Jan: Carroll A. Deering January (unknown date): SMS Baden, HMS Europa, Hewitt 9 Feb: HMS Hydra 21 Feb: USS Woolsey 3 Mar: Hong Moh 4 Mar: Carroll A. Deering 13 Mar: Leonita March (unknown date): USS Conestoga 13 May: Miztec 14 May: Wollongbar 23 May: USS Granite State 26 May: Esperanto 7 Jun: U-151 , UC-97 21 Jun: USS G-1 22 Jun: U-177 24 Jun: HMS K15 26 Jun: Fitzroy 30 Jun: Mopang, U-152 , U-153 1 Jul: U-121 11 Jul: General Pershing 13 Jul: SMS G102 15 Jul: V43 18 Jul: Frankfurt 21 Jul: Ostfriesland 22 Jul: U-140 16 Aug: Baden 26 Aug: City of Brunswick 3 Sep: Abessinia 26 Sep: USS R-6 27 Sep: USS Alabama 7 Oct: USS Herreshoff No. 321 8 Oct: Rowan 3 Nov: Carrier Dove 30 Nov: Guvernøren 1 Dec: USS DeLong 7 Dec: USS S-48 30 Dec: HMS Prince George Unknown date: Equity, Rüsumat No 4 , U-86 , U-161 , UB-122
Other incidents	29 Jan: España 18 Apr: Iron Monarch May (unknown date): USS R-14 8 Jul: Western Comet 19 Jul: Submarine No. 24 17 Aug: Maurice Callot 19 Aug: King Orry 29 Aug: Maurice Callot Unknown date: USLHT Azalea
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