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SM U-40 (Germany)
SM ''U-40'' was a German Type U 31 U-boat of the German Imperial Navy ((ドイツ語:Kaiserliche Marine)) during World War I.
Her construction was ordered on 12 June 1912 and her keel was laid down on 3 April 1913 by Germaniawerft of Kiel. She was launched on 22 October 1914 and commissioned on 14 February 1915 under the command of Gerhardt Fürbringer. Second officer was lieutenant Rudolf Jauch (of the ''Jauch family'').
U-40 conducted one patrol, without sinking a ship.
==Fate==
On the morning of 23 June 1915 ''U-40'' stopped the trawler ''Taranaki'' in the North Sea. ''Taranaki'' was in fact a decoy vessel, or "Q-ship", and was connected to the submerged submarine by a combined tow line and telephone cable. When ''U-40'' stopped the trawler, ''Taranaki'' telephoned the situation to ''C24''. When ''C24'' tried to slip the tow line, however, the release mechanism failed, and ''C24'' had to manoeuvre into an attacking position with a hundred fathoms of chain hanging from her bow. Her commander, Lieutenant Frederick Henry Taylor, was able to adjust her trim and avoid fouling the chain in the propellers and fired a single torpedo that struck ''U-40'' amidships. The U-boat sank instantly, only three men in the conning tower surviving to be picked up by the ''Taranaki''.
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