SM U-75
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SM U-75 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-75 was engaged in naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. On her first mission, U-75 laid the mine that sank the cruiser HMS Hampshire during her voyage to Russia carrying British Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener. The cruiser sank at 59°07′N 03°24′W west of the Orkney Islands with nearly total loss of life in a force 9 gale.
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length 56.8 metre, draft 4.86 metre, beam 5.9 metre,
Imperial German Navy, Bremer Vulkan,
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Location: 59.1167, -3.4, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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ship launching
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ship commissioning
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | 1529 | Battle of Summerdale | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1919 | Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, naval battle, scuttling, German Empire | Wikidata |
| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | uboat.net page@ | Wikidata | ||
| object | watercraft | SM U-75 | minelaying submarine, Type UE I submarine, U-boat | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Graemsay Battery, coast battery and camp | artillery battery, military base | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Houton Head, battery 325m W of Sunnybraes | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Ness Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Ness Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Ness Battery, gun emplacements 300m SSE of, Stromness | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Point of Avelshay, coastal battery, Rousay | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Scad Head, coast artillery battery, camp and railway, Hoy | artillery battery, military camp, industrial railway | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Skerry Battery, coast battery (WW2) 460m NNE of Bu | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Upper Sower, coastal battery N of, Clestrain | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Wasswick Battery, coastal battery complex 400m E of Queenamuckle | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Bishop's Palace | Historic Environment Scotland, episcopal palace, castle | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | 1379 | Kirkwall Castle | castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1569 | Earl's Palace | castle | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | HMS Endeavour | boom defence vessel, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | HMS Loch Garry | naval trawler, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | HMS Pheasant | shipwreck, Admiralty M-class destroyer, destroyer | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | HMS Poonah | shipwreck, minesweeper | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Bayern | super-dreadnought, shipwreck, Bayern-class battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Bremse | minelaying cruiser, shipwreck, Brummer-class cruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Cöln | shipwreck, light cruiser, Cöln-class cruiser, cruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Emden | shipwreck, light cruiser, cruiser, Königsberg-class cruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Friedrich der Grosse | Kaiser-class battleship, shipwreck, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Grosser Kurfürst | shipwreck, König-class battleship, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Hindenburg | shipwreck, Derfflinger-class battlecruiser, battlecruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Kaiser | Kaiser-class battleship, shipwreck, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Kaiserin | shipwreck, Kaiser-class battleship, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Karlsruhe | light cruiser, shipwreck, Königsberg-class cruiser, cruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS König | shipwreck, König-class battleship, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS König Albert | shipwreck, Kaiser-class battleship, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Kronprinz | shipwreck, König-class battleship, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Markgraf | König-class battleship, shipwreck, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Moltke | shipwreck, Moltke-class battlecruiser, battlecruiser | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Prinzregent Luitpold | Kaiser-class battleship, shipwreck, battleship | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS V100 | V99-class destroyer, large torpedo boat of German navy, shipwreck, destroyer | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SMS Von der Tann | battlecruiser, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | 1903 | HMS Hampshire | Devonshire-class armored cruiser, shipwreck, armored cruiser | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1916 | SMS Brummer | minelaying cruiser, shipwreck, Brummer-class cruiser | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1917 | SMS Nürnberg | light cruiser, shipwreck, Königsberg-class cruiser | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1918 | SMS Dresden | shipwreck, Cöln-class cruiser, cruiser | Wikidata |
