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SM U 2 (Germany)

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Name
  
U–2

Cost
  
1,548,000 Goldmark

Commissioned
  
18 July 1908

Launched
  
18 June 1908

Builder
  
Ordered
  
4 March 1906

Yard number
  
DU 1

Decommissioned
  
19 February 1919

Draft
  
3.05 m

Part of
  
Imperial German Navy

SM U-2 was a German U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. Only one of the type, sometimes called German Type U 2 submarine, was built. U-2 was ordered from Kaiserliche Werft of Danzig on 4 March 1906, launched on 18 June 1908, and commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 18 July 1908. She conducted no war patrols and spent World War I as a training platform.

After Germany's surrender, she was decommissioned on 19 February 1919 and sold for shipbreaking to Stinnes on 3 February 1920.

References

SM U-2 (Germany) Wikipedia


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