SM U-22 (Austria-Hungary)
The design for U-22 was based on the Havmanden class of the Royal Danish Navy (Havmanden pictured) | |
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| Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | SM U-22 |
| Ordered | 27 March 1915 |
| Builder | Hungarian UBAG yard, Fiume |
| Laid down | Mid 1915 |
| Launched | 27 January 1917 |
| Commissioned | 23 November 1917 |
| Fate | Ceded to France, scrapped 1920 |
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| Victories: | None |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | U-20-class submarine |
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| Length | 127 ft 2 in (38.76 m) |
| Beam | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Complement | 18 |
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SM U-22 or U-XXII was a U-20-class submarine or U-boat built for and operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) during the First World War. The design for U-22 was based on submarines of the Royal Danish Navy's Havmanden class (three of which had been built in Austria-Hungary), and was largely obsolete by the beginning of the war.
U-22 was just over 127 feet (39 m) long and was armed with two bow torpedo tubes, a deck gun, and a machine gun. The submarine was laid down in mid 1915 and launched in January 1917. The still unfinished U-boat sank in the harbor at Fiume in June but was raised, repaired, and relaunched in October. After her commissioning in November, U-22 patrolled off the Po River estuary and, later, in the northern Adriatic out of Trieste.
After undergoing months of repairs for her failed electric motor in mid 1918, U-22 returned to duty and patrolled off the Montenegrin coast out of Cattaro in August. At Cattaro at the end of World War I, U-22 was ceded to France as a war reparation and scrapped in 1920. U-22 had no wartime successes.