Name U-5 Cost 2,540,000 Goldmark Laid down 24 August 1908 Construction started 24 August 1908 Draft 3.55 m | Ordered 8 April 1908 Yard number 147 Commissioned 2 July 1910 Launched 8 January 1910 | |
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Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft |
SM U-5 was a German Type U 5 U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. She was commissioned 2 July 1910 in Germaniawerft in Kiel. She served in World War I under the command of Kptlt. Johannes Lemmer, with no recorded sinkings of enemy ships on two patrols. She was lost in an accident off the Belgian coast on 18 December 1914, and sank with no survivors - all of her 29 crew members lost their lives.
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