| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | G |
| Fate: | Sold 20th January 1923. |
10th Flotilla. Tees.
| Length overall | 187 ft 1 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 4 inch |
| Depth | 16 ft 7 inch |
| Displacement | 703 tons (surface) |
| 837 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 14 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9.5 to 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 8 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 18 inch beam tubes | |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (10 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 2-pounder gun | |
| Endurance | Surface: 2600 miles at 12.5 knots (design) |
| Surface: 1650 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 99 miles at 3 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 95 miles at 3 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 3 Officers and 28 ratings |
U-889 was a type IXC U-Boat which spent some months in Canadian hands after the german surrender in 1945, before being handed over to the US Navy the following year. She was examined in minute detail and the results have survived, giving a unique account of the layout and equipment of a U-Boat
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| Length overall | 187 ft 1 inch |
| Beam | 15 ft 4 inch |
| Depth | 16 ft 7 inch |
| Displacement | 703 tons (surface) |
| 837 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 200 ft |
| Speed | Surface 15.5 knots (design) |
| Surface 14 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 9.5 to 10 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 9 knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 8 inch diameter |
| Armament | 2 x 18 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 18 inch beam tubes | |
| 1 21 inch stern tube | |
| (10 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 2-pounder gun | |
| Endurance | Surface: 2600 miles at 12.5 knots (design) |
| Surface: 1650 miles at full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 99 miles at 3 knots (design) | |
| Submerged: 95 miles at 3 knots (service) | |
| Complement | 3 Officers and 28 ratings |
U-889 was a type IXC U-Boat which spent some months in Canadian hands after the german surrender in 1945, before being handed over to the US Navy the following year. She was examined in minute detail and the results have survived, giving a unique account of the layout and equipment of a U-Boat
Collected and edited by Trident Society of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland
20 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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