SM U-135

SM "U-135" was a German Type Mittel U U-boat of the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I.

In November 1918, U-135 was ordered to help put down the German Navy mutiny. Along with the 4th Torpedo boat Half-Flotilla, U-135 ended the mutiny aboard two German battleships SMS Thüringen and SMS Helgoland by threatening to torpedo the ships.

The U-135 was seen by later submarine designers as an excellent design. She was an inspiration for V-boats USS Cachalot (SS-170) and USS Cuttlefish (SS-171).

Prior to the U-135 being scuttled by the Royal Navy in the early 1920s, her engines and various other items of equipment were stripped by a team of 25 students lead by J. F. Driver from the then Loughborough College. This equipment was reassembled initially in a wooden hut in Packe Street, Loughborough, and later in a purpose built generating station opened in 1937. They were finally taken out of use, and replaced, in 1949. [p50, Loughborough University of Technology: Past and Present, Leonard Cantor, 1990, LUT]

"See Also: List of U-boats"

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