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German submarine U-110 (1940)

Index German submarine U-110 (1940)

German submarine U-110 was a Type IXB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II. [1]

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  1. 60 relations: AG Weser, Alnwick Castle, Antiques Roadshow, Beam (nautical), Blasket Islands, Bletchley Park, Bremen, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Ceremonial ship launching, Convoy OB 318, Court-martial, Deck gun, Depth charge, Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Diesel engine, Draft (hull), Enigma machine, Faroe Islands, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fritz-Julius Lemp, GIUK gap, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Iceland, Iroquois Falls, Kapitänleutnant, Kiel, Kriegsmarine, Kurzsignale, Length overall, Lorient, MAN SE, Monteith Correctional Complex, Monteith POW camp, Motor–generator, Naval boarding, Nazi Germany, Propeller, Reservehandverfahren, Royal Navy, Shetland, Ship commissioning, Ship's company, Siemens-Schuckert, Sonar, SS Athenia (1922), Submarine hull, Supercharger, Tampion, Torpedo, Torpedo tube, ... Expand index (10 more) »

  2. Captured U-boats
  3. Enigma machine
  4. Maritime incidents in May 1941
  5. Naval ships of Germany captured by the United Kingdom during World War II

AG Weser

Aktien-Gesellschaft "Weser" (abbreviated A.G. "Weser") was one of the major German shipbuilding companies, located at the Weser River in Bremen.

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Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle is a castle and country house in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland.

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Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people (generally speaking).

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Blasket Islands

The Blasket Islands (Na Blascaodaí) are an uninhabited group of islands off the west coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. German submarine U-110 (1940) and Bletchley Park are Enigma machine.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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Cape Farewell, Greenland

Cape Farewell (Nunap Isua; Kap Farvel) is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland.

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Ceremonial ship launching

Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.

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Convoy OB 318

OB 318 was a North Atlantic convoy which ran during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. German submarine U-110 (1940) and convoy OB 318 are Enigma machine.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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Deck gun

A deck gun is a type of naval artillery mounted on the deck of a submarine.

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Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.

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Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau

Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (abbreviated Deschimag) was a cooperation of eight German shipyards in the period 1926 to 1945.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fritz-Julius Lemp

Fritz-Julius Lemp (19 February 1913 – 9 May 1941) was a captain in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of, and.

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GIUK gap

The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point.

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Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

Nicholas Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (born 5 March 1955) is a British writer.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Iroquois Falls

Iroquois Falls is a town in Northern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 4,537 at the 2016 census.

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Kapitänleutnant

, short: KptLt/in lists: KL, (captain lieutenant or lieutenant captain) is an officer grade of the captains' military hierarchy group of the German.

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Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Kurzsignale

The Short Signal Code, also known as the Short Signal Book (Kurzsignalbuch), was a short code system used by the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II to minimize the transmission duration of messages.

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Length overall

Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.

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MAN SE

MAN SE (abbreviation of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) was a manufacturing and engineering company based in Munich, Germany.

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Monteith Correctional Complex

The Monteith Correctional Complex is a medium/maximum security prison located in Monteith, a community in Iroquois Falls, Ontario.

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Monteith POW camp

The POW Camp 23, Monteith was a Canadian-run POW camp during World War II, located in Monteith, Iroquois Falls, Ontario.

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Motor–generator

A motor–generator (an M–G set) is a device for converting electrical power to another form.

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Naval boarding action is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Reservehandverfahren

Reservehandverfahren (RHV) (Reserve Hand Procedure) was a German Naval World War II hand-cipher system used as a backup method when no working Enigma machine was available. German submarine U-110 (1940) and Reservehandverfahren are Enigma machine.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Shetland

Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.

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Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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Ship's company

A ship's company or complement comprises all officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel aboard a naval vessel, excluding civilians and guests.

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Siemens-Schuckert

Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.

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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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SS Athenia (1922)

SS Athenia was a steam turbine transatlantic passenger liner built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1923 for the Anchor-Donaldson Line, which later became the Donaldson Atlantic Line. German submarine U-110 (1940) and sS Athenia (1922) are World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Submarine hull

A submarine hull has two major components, the light hull and the pressure hull.

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Supercharger

In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement.

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Tampion

A tampion or tompion (in the Royal Navy)Simmons, 1812, p. 163.

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Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.

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Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.

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Type IXA submarine

The German Type IXA submarine was a sub-class of the German Type IX submarine built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine between 1937 and 1938. German submarine U-110 (1940) and Type IXA submarine are German Type IX submarines.

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Type IXB submarine

The German Type IXB submarine was a sub-class of the German Type IX submarine built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine between 1938 and 1940. German submarine U-110 (1940) and Type IXB submarine are German Type IX submarines.

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U-571 (film)

U-571 is a 2000 submarine film directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Montgomery and David Ayer.

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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Wolfpack (naval tactic)

The wolfpack was a convoy attack tactic employed in the Second World War.

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Wolfpack West

West was a wolfpack of German U-boats that operated during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic from 8 May 1941 to 20 June 1941.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38

The Flak 30 (Flugzeugabwehrkanone 30) and improved Flak 38 were 20 mm anti-aircraft guns used by various German forces throughout World War II.

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2nd U-boat Flotilla

The 2nd U-boat Flotilla (German 2. Unterseebootsflottille), also known as the Saltzwedel Flotilla, was the second operational U-boat unit in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.

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See also

Captured U-boats

Enigma machine

Maritime incidents in May 1941

Naval ships of Germany captured by the United Kingdom during World War II

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-110_(1940)

Also known as German submarine U 110 (1940), German submarine U110 (1940), Operation Primrose (1941), U 110 (1940), U-110 (1940), U-boat U-110, U110 (1940), Unterseeboot 110 (1940).

, Type IXA submarine, Type IXB submarine, U-571 (film), U-boat, Winston Churchill, Wolfpack (naval tactic), Wolfpack West, World War II, 2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38, 2nd U-boat Flotilla.