SM UC 53

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SM UC 53
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The sister boat UC 56, interned in Santander, Spain, in May 1918

The sister boat UC 56
, interned in Santander, Spain, in May 1918
Type:

Submarine class UC , type UC II

Shipyard:

Germania shipyard , Kiel

Construction contract:

January 12, 1916

Build number:

269

Launch:

February 27, 1917

Commissioning:

April 5, 1917

Commanders:
  • Klt Kurt Albrecht (April 5, 1927 - February 5, 1918)
  • OltzS Adolf Ehrensberger (February 6 - June 18, 1918)
  • Klt Erich Gerth (June 19 - October 28, 1918)
Calls:

8 patrols

Sinkings:

47 merchant ships with 46,498 GRT sunk;
11 merchant ships with 31,612 GRT damaged;
1 warship with 120 tons damaged

Whereabouts: in the October 28, 1918 Pola scuttled

SM UC 53 was a German mine-laying submarine of the UC II class of the U-Boot-Klasse UC , which was ordered and built for the Imperial Navy and used in the U-Boat War during the First World War with the kuk identification U 95 im Mediterranean was used. The boat was self- scuttled by its crew on October 28, 1918 , when Austria-Hungary left the war.

history

The boat was ordered on January 12, 1916, launched on February 27, 1917 , and entered service on April 5, 1917. On July 24, 1917 it was assigned to the Mediterranean U-Flotilla formed on June 1, 1917 from the previous U-Flotilla Pola , which operated from Pola and Cattaro . The boat now also went under the kuk designation SM U 95 . When the flotilla was divided on January 1, 1918, the boat came to the 2nd Mediterranean submarine flotilla in Cattaro.

In a total of eight patrols, the boat sank, partly through mines it had laid, partly with torpedoes , 47 merchant ships with a total of 46,498 GRT and damaged a further eleven merchant ships with a total of 31,612 GRT. In addition, a small British Q-ship weighing 120 t was damaged .

When Austria-Hungary retired from the war in October 1918, UC 53 was occupied by its crew on October 28, 1918 southwest of Pola at position 44 ° 31 ′  N , 13 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 30 '0 "  O sunk.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ In order to avoid confusion between the Austro-Hungarian submarines and the German boats operating from Pola and Cattaro, the boats of the Mediterranean submarine flotilla had consecutive kuk numbers. They were not really renamed, but only included in a special list under these numbers.

Web links

literature

  • Harald Bendert: The UC boats of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918. Mine warfare with submarines. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn, 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0758-7 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945, Vol. 3, U-boats, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .