SM U-17 (Germany)
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For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-17.
SM U-17[Note 1] was a German submarine during World War I. U-17 sank the first British merchant vessel in the First World War, and also sank another ten ships, damaged one ship and captured two ships, surviving the war without casualty.
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U-17 (second row, second from the right), Kiel Harbour, February 1914 | |
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Germany | |
Name | U-17 |
Ordered | 10 May 1910 |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
Cost | 2,333,000 Goldmark |
Yard number | 11 |
Laid down | 1 October 1910 |
Launched | 16 April 1912 |
Commissioned | 3 November 1912 |
Stricken | 27 January 1919 |
Fate | Struck 27 January 1919, scrapped at Imperial Dockyard, Kiel. Pressure hull sold to Stinnes, Hamburg on 3 February 1920. |
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Class and type | German Type U 17 submarine |
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Length | 62.35 m (204 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Height | 7.30 m (23 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 3.40 m (11 ft 2 in) |
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Test depth | 50 m (164 ft 1 in) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dingi |
Complement | 4 officers, 25 men |
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Operations: | 4 patrols |
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