SM U-116[Note 1] was a German Type 115 U-boat of the Imperial German Navy built at Schichau-Werke, Danzig. As her sister ship SM U-115, she was never completed and ultimately broken up in Danzig after the Armistice with Germany. Her main engines were used in M/S Adolf Sommerfeld ex SMS Gefion. Both boats had been offered to the IGN free of charge by Schichau in an attempt to gain experience in building submarines (Williamson, 15).
| History | |
|---|---|
 German Empire | |
| Name | U-116 |
| Builder | Schichau-Werke, Elbing |
| Cost | 4,100,000 Goldmark |
| Yard number | 987 |
| Laid down | September 1916 |
| Launched | 1918 |
| Fate | never completed, broken up at Danzig |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | German Type U 115 submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 72.30 m (237 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 4 m (13 ft 1 in) |
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| Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Complement | 4 officers, 32 men |
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References
editNotes
edit- ^ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
Citations
editBibliography
edit- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). German Warships 1815–1945, U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. Vol. 2. Translated by Thomas, Keith; Magowan, Rachel. London: Conway Maritime Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-85177-593-4.
- Gordon Williamson, U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy. Osprey, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-362-4
- R.H. Gibson, Maurice Prendergast, The German Submarine War 1914–1918, Periscope Publishing Ltd., 2002, ISBN 1-904381-08-1, p. 114
- Eberhard Rössler, The U-boat: the evolution and technical history of German submarines, Naval Institute Press, 1981, ISBN 0-87021-966-9, p. 56
- Stefan Lipsky, Florian Lipsky, Deutsche U-Boote: hundert Jahre Technik und Entwicklung, Mittler, 2006, ISBN 3-8132-0868-0, p. 85