SM U-75

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 (1903) during her voyage to Russia carrying British Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener. The cruiser sank at 59.11667°N, -3.4°W west of the Orkney Islands with heavy loss of life in a force 9 gale.