Name U-45 Commissioned 9 October 1915 Class and type Type U-43 submarine Draft 3.74 m | Ordered 22 June 1914 Fate Sunk 12 September 1917 Launched 15 April 1915 Builder Kaiserliche Werft Danzig | |
Displacement 725 t (714 long tons) surfaced
940 t (930 long tons) submerged | ||
SM U-45 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.
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.
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