Kriegsmarine — Submarine
1936
German submarine U-26 (1936)
Service
- as U-266 May 1936 — 1 July 1940304 days of the war
German submarine U-26 (1936)
Particulars
- Name
- U-26
- Pennant / hull number
- 1936
- Builder
- DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen
- Ordered
- 17 December 1934
- Laid down
- 1 August 1935
- Launched
- 14 March 1936
- Commissioned
- 6 May 1936
- Fate
- Scuttled 1 July 1940, southwest of Ireland. 48 survivors (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 712 long tons (723 t)
- Displacement, surfaced
- 848 long tons (862 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 966 long tons (982 t)
- Length
- 72.39 m (237.5 ft)
- Beam
- 6.21 m (20.4 ft)
- Draught
- 4.3 m (14.1 ft)
- Speed
- 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h, 21.4 mph)
- Range
- 7,900 nmi (14,631 km)
- Complement
- 43
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
U-26 was a submarine, operated by the Kriegsmarine. She carried the pennant number 1936. DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen laid her keel on 1 August 1935. Launched on 14 March 1936, she entered service on 6 May 1936.
The boat displaced 848 long tons surfaced and 966 long tons submerged. She measured 72.4 m (237 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 18.6 knots, and she carried a complement of 43.
Her main battery was one 105 mm (4.1 in) guns.
She was in commission for 304 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 1 July 1940. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × MAN M8V40/46 8-cylinder diesel engines with 2900 - 3080 PS
- 2 × BBC GG UB720/8 double-acting electric motors with 1000 PS
- Armament
- 6 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes, 4 bow, 2 stern
- 14 × torpedoes
- 28 × TMA mines
- 1 × 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun
- 1 × 2 cm C/30 AA gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-26 (1936) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: not identified — This photograph HU 1001 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 5003-04) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons