SM U-45
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For other ships with the same name, see German submarine U-45.
SM U-45[Note 1] was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-45 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
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Name | U-45 |
Ordered | 22 June 1914 |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
Yard number | 23 |
Launched | 15 April 1915 |
Commissioned | 9 October 1915 |
Fate | Sunk 12 September 1917 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Type U-43 submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 65.00 m (213 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
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Height | 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 3.74 m (12 ft 3 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 2 shafts |
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Test depth | 50 m (164 ft 1 in) |
Complement | 36 |
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Service record | |
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Operations: | 7 patrols |
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U-45 was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of the Shetland Islands (55°48′N 7°30′W) by the Royal Navy submarine HMS D7 on 12 September 1917 with the loss of 43 of her 45 crewmen.