German Type Mittel U submarine

	SM U-86, a Mittel U submarine
Class overview
Builders	AG Weser, Bremen; Germaniawerft, Kiel; Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig; Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack;
Operators	Imperial German Navy
Preceded by	Type U 66
Completed	46
General characteristics
Displacement	808 tonnes (795 long tons)(surfaced); 946 tonnes (931 long tons) (submerged); 1,160 tonnes (1,140 long tons) (total);
Length	70.60 m (231 ft 8 in) (overall); 55.55 m (182 ft 3 in) (pressure hull);
Beam	6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) (overall); 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in) (pressure hull);
Draught	4.02 m (13 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2 hp × 2,400 hp (1.5 kW × 1,789.7 kW) (surfaced); 2 hp × 1,200 hp (1.5 kW × 894.8 kW) (submerged);
Speed	16.8 knots (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) (surfaced); 9.1 knots (16.9 km/h; 10.5 mph) (submerged);
Range	11,220 mi (9,750 nmi; 18,060 km) (surfaced) 56 mi (49 nmi; 90 km) (submerged)
Complement	39 men
Armament	16 torpedoes (4/2 in bow/stern tubes); 105mm deck gun with 220 rounds; 88mm deck gun;

Mittel U was a class of U-boats built during World War I by the Kaiserliche Marine.

Mittel U U-boats carried 16 torpedoes and had various arrangements of deck guns. Some had only one 88mm gun while others had a single 105mm gun - but most had both originally. In 1917 some of the boats were refitted with a single 105mm gun.

They carried a crew of 39 and had excellent seagoing abilities with a cruising range of around 11,220 miles. Many arrangements from the Mittel U were also seen on the World War II Type IX U-boats when their design work took place 20 years later.

Between 1915 and 1919 46 were built, amongst them U-88 with Walther Schwieger as commander and U-103 with Claus Rücker.

List of Type Mittel U submarines

There were 46 Type Mittel U submarines commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine.

External links

"uboat.net". WWI U-boat Types. Archived from the original on February 19, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2007.

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v t e German Type Mittel U submarines
U-81 U-82 U-83 U-84 U-85 U-86 U-87 U-88 U-89 U-90 U-91 U-92 U-93 U-94 U-95 U-96 U-97 U-98 U-99 U-100 U-101 U-102 U-103 U-104 U-105 U-106 U-107 U-108 U-109 U-110 U-111 U-112 U-113 U-114 U-135 U-136 U-137 U-138 U-160 U-161 U-162 U-163 U-164 U-165 U-166 U-167
Preceded by: Type U 66 Followed by: Type U 139
List of U-boats of Germany

v t e German naval ship classes of World War I
Dreadnought battleships	Nassau Helgoland Kaiser König Bayern L 20e α^X
Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brandenburg Kaiser Friedrich III Wittelsbach Braunschweig Deutschland
Battlecruisers	SMS Von der Tann^S Moltke SMS Seydlitz^S Derfflinger Mackensen^X Ersatz Yorck^X
Armored cruisers	SMS Fürst Bismarck^S SMS Prinz Heinrich^S Prinz Adalbert Roon Scharnhorst SMS Blücher^S
Light cruisers	SMS Hela^S Gazelle Bremen Königsberg Dresden Nautilus Kolberg Magdeburg Karlsruhe Graudenz Pillau Wiesbaden Königsberg Brummer Cöln FK proposals^X
Protected cruisers	SMS Kaiserin Augusta^S Victoria Louise
Large torpedo boats	1898 1906 1911 1913 1914 G101^A V105^N 1916 1916M 1917 1918^X
Small / Coastal torpedo boats	S7 A
Aircraft carriers	"I"^X
Coastal defense ships	Siegfried Odin
U-boats	U 1 U 2 U 3 U 5 U 9 U 13 U 16 U 17 U 19 U 23 U 27 U 31 U 43 U 51 U 57 U 63 U 66 U 81 U 87 U 93 U 115^X U 127 U 131^X U 135 U 139 U 142 U 151 UA UB I UB II UB III UC I UC II UC III UD 1^X UE I UE II UF^X UG^X
S Single ship of class X Cancelled V Conversions A Building for Argentina when seized N Building for the Netherlands when seized See also: List of ships of the Imperial German Navy