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Name
  
U-7

Cost
  
2,540,000 Goldmark

Laid down
  
6 May 1909

Construction started
  
6 May 1909

Length
  
57 m

Beam
  
5.6 m

Ordered
  
8 April 1908

Yard number
  
149

Commissioned
  
18 July 1911

Launched
  
28 July 1910

Draft
  
3.55 m

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Builder
  
Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft

SM U-7 was a Type U 5 U-boat, one of the 329 that served in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-7 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.

Fate

On 21 January 1915, U-7 was torpedoed and sunk by SM U-22, which had mistaken her for an enemy submarine. Twenty-four crew were killed, and only one survived.

References

SM U-7 (Germany) Wikipedia