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DYKKEREN (1909-1917)
(In English: The Diver)

The submarine DYKKEREN in Copenhagen harbor.
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Classification

Type:

Submarine

Class:

n/a

Other Ships
in Class:

None

Specifications

Built by:

Fiat San Giorgio Shipyard, La Spezia, Italy

Design:

n/a

Laid down:

n/a

Launched:

July 18, 1909

Commissioned:

September 29, 1909

Decommissioned:

June 13, 1917

Pennant Number:

1

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

105 tons - 132 tons submerged

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

34.65 m

3.50 m

2.20 m

Complement:

12 men

Propulsion:

Electrical Engine - 220 Hp

Range:

Around 100 NM

Armament:

2 ea Torpedo Tubes

Speed:

12 knots - surface
7.5 knots - submerged

History

Date:

Military Service:

October 1909
- February 1910

Participated in the Winter Squadrons exercises

1910

Participated in the Squadrons exercises

1914

In the Training Squadron

August 1, 1914

Joined the Danish partly mobilized forces

October 9, 1916

Sank during a submerged training exercise after a collision with a Norwegian steamer off Taarbaek Reef outside Copenhagen.

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October 13, 1916

Salvaged and brought back the Naval Dockyard at Copenhagen

1917

Sold and scrapped

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

1909-1910

Commander Oluf Aarestrup

1910-

Lieutenant Hjalmar Rechnitzer

1912-1913

Lieutenant Niels Juel-Brockdorff

1916

Lieutenant Svend Aage Christiansen

Notes

During the training exercises in 1910 a performance test was held, and the sub stayed submerged for 12 hours.

In the fall of 1910 the DYKKEREN was equipped with wireless communi-cation, thereby becoming one of the first subs in the world equipped with wireless.

More Photos

DYKKEREN immediately after launching at La Spezia in Italy, 1909.
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

Sources:

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Officerer i den Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II, by Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard, H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen, 1935

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U-både gennem 75 år - Det danske ubådsvåben 1909-84, by Hans Chr. Bjerg, Hans Chr. Dahlerup Koch and P. B. Nielsen, Forlaget Forum, 1984

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Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography