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U127 large submarines (1918)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
U127   290 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1916 8.1.1919 --- BU incomplete 1920
U128   291 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1920
U129   292 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1920
U130   293 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1920
U131   272 Weser, Bremen 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1919/20
U132   273 Weser, Bremen 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1919/20
U133   274 Weser, Bremen 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1919/20
U134   275 Weser, Bremen 1916 1918 --- BU incomplete 1919/20
U135   43 KW Danzig 1916 8.9.1917 6.1918 to United Kingdom 11.1918
U136   44 KW Danzig 1916 7.11.1917 8.1918 to France 2.1919
U137   45 KW Danzig 1916 8.1.1918 --- BU incomplete 1919
U138   46 KW Danzig 1916 26.3.1918 --- BU incomplete 1919


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

U127 - 130: 1221 / 1649

U131 - 134: 1160 / 1527

U135 - 138: 1175 / 1534

Length, m

U127 - 130: 82.1

U131 - 134: 82.5

U135 - 138: 83.5

Breadth, m

7.54

Draught, m

U127 - 130: 4.21

U131 - 134: 4.16

U135 - 138: 4.26

No of shafts

2

Machinery

U127, 128, 131 - 133, 135 - 138: 2 MAN diesels + 2 MAN-Brown Boveri diesels / 2 AEG electric motors

U129, 130: 2 Germania diesels + 2 Germania diesels / 2 AEG electric motors

U134: 2 Körting diesels + 2 MAN-Brown Boveri diesels / 2 AEG electric motors

Power, h. p.

U127 - 130: 3300+900=4200 / 1690

U131 - 134: 3400+900=4300 / 1690

U135 - 138: 3500+900=4400 / 1690

Max speed, kts

17 / 8.1

Fuel, t

diesel oil 191

Endurance, nm(kts)

10000(8) / 50(4.5)

Armament

2 x 1 - 149/42 TK L/45 C/16, 6 - 500 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 14)

Complement

46

Diving depth operational, m

75



Standard scale images


<i>U135</i> 1918
U135 1918


Project history

War order M. Double-hulled. They had a diving time of 30 seconds. Big Ms type boats built in groups of 4. Larger submarines U213-218 (KW Danzig), U219-224 (Weser, Bremen) and U225-228 (Blohm & Voss, Hamburg) of War Order AE were cancelled before building was started. The had to have that data: (1335-1400/1830-1900t, 88.1-87.6x7.9x4.0m, 4400/1690hp, 18/9kts, 12000(8)/90(4.5)nm, 217t of diesel oil, 1 x 1 - 149/42 TK L/45 C/16, 6 - 500 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 16) on U213 - 218 or 8 - 500 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 20) on U219-228, complement 46)

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All boats were 80-90% completed at the end of the war; U 135 sank on the way to the breakers in England, U 136.became a French war reparation and was scrapped in Cherbourg, 1921; all the others were broken Up in Germany, the diesels being used for merchant ships.