Name U-26 Laid down 31 May 1912 Construction started 31 May 1912 Length 65 m | Ordered 18 March 1911 Commissioned 20 May 1914 Launched 16 October 1913 Draft 3.45 m | |
Fate 30 September 1915 - Lost in Gulf of Finland August/September 1915 for unknown reason. 30 dead (all hands lost). Class and type German Type U 23 submarine Builders Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel | ||
SM U-26 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in World War I.
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U-26 was engaged in the Naval warfare of World War I in the Baltic Sea. On 11 October 1914, she sank the cruiser Pallada, inflicting the first loss of the war on the Russian Navy.
Fate
The boat did not return from sea in August 1915, and is assumed to have struck a mine off the coast of Finland, being lost with its entire crew of 30.
Wreck discovered
The boat was found in the western Gulf of Finland as reported by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in May 2014.
References
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