SM U-5 (Germany)

For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-5.

300px SM U-5 in the Harbour of Kiel (second boat left)
History
German Empire
Name:	U-5
Ordered:	8 April 1908
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Cost:	2,540,000 Goldmark
Yard number:	147
Laid down:	24 August 1908
Launched:	8 January 1910
Commissioned:	2 July 1910
Fate:	Sunk 18 December 1914. 29 dead.
General characteristics
Class & type:	German Type U 5 submarine
Displacement:	505 t (497 long tons) surfaced 636 t (626 long tons) submerged
Length:	57.30 m (188.0 ft) (o/a) 43.10 m (141.4 ft) (pressure hull)
Beam:	5.60 m (18.4 ft) (o/a) 3.75 m (12.3 ft) (pressure hull)
Draught:	3.55 m (11.6 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × Körting 6-cylinder and 2 ×  Körting 8-cylinder two stroke Kerosene motors with 900 PS (890 hp) 2 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motors with 1,040 PS (1,030 hp) 550 rpm surfaced 600 rpm submerged
Speed:	13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) surfaced 10.2 knots (18.9 km/h; 11.7 mph) submerged
Range:	3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) surfaced 55 nmi (102 km; 63 mi) at 4.5 knots (8.3 km/h; 5.2 mph)
Test depth:	30 m (98 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 dingi
Complement:	4 officers, 24 men
Armament:	4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 each bow and stern) with 6 torpedoes 1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss gun
Service record
Part of:	I Flotilla 1 August – 18 December 1914
Commanders:	Kptlt. Johannes Lemmer 1 August – 18 December 1914
Operations:	2 patrols
Victories:	None

SM U-5 was a German Type U 5 U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. She was commissioned 2 July 1910 in Germaniawerft in Kiel. She served in World War I under the command of Kptlt. Johannes Lemmer, with no recorded sinkings of enemy ships on two patrols. She was lost in an accident off the Belgian coast on 18 December 1914, and sank with no survivors - all of her 29 crew members lost their lives.

Bibliography

• Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X