SM U-95
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For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-95.
SM U-95 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-95 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. She was rammed and sunk by the steamship SS Breaneil off the Lizard Peninsula on 7 January 1918. The wreck was found and identified by archaeologist Innes McCartney in 2006.[4]
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Name | U-95 |
Ordered | 15 September 1915 |
Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Yard number | 259 |
Laid down | 29 March 1916 |
Launched | 20 January 1917 |
Commissioned | 29 April 1917 |
Fate | Rammed and sunk by the steamship SS Breaneil off the Lizard Peninsula on 7 January 1918[1] |
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Class and type | German Type U 93 submarine |
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Height | 8.25 m (27 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 3.94 m (12 ft 11 in) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 × 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) propellers |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement | 4 officers, 32 enlisted |
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Operations: | 6 patrols |
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