Name U-8 Cost 2,540,000 Goldmark Laid down 19 May 1909 Construction started 19 May 1909 Draft 3.55 m | Ordered 8 April 1908 Yard number 150 Commissioned 18 June 1911 Launched 14 March 1911 | |
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Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | ||
Service HistoryEdit
SM U-8 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-8 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
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FateEdit
Trapped in nets, forced to surface and scuttled under gunfire from HMS Gurkha and Maori, in the English Channel, at position 50°56′N 01°16′E. In June 2015 the submarine's propeller, which had been illegally removed from the wreck, was recovered and presented to the German Navy. It will be exhibited at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel. In July 2016 the wreck of U-8 was officially designated as a protected site.
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