SM UC 58
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Type : | UC II |
Shipyard: | Imperial Shipyard Gdansk |
Construction contract: | January 12, 1916 |
Build number: | 40 |
Keel laying: | March 18, 1916 |
Launch: | October 21, 1916 |
Commissioning: | March 12, 1917 |
Commanders: |
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Flotilla: |
U-FI Courland |
Calls: | 12 patrols |
Sinkings: |
24 sunk merchant ships, 1 ship damaged, 3 ships as a prize , 1 warship sunk |
Whereabouts: | capitulated in France, 1921 in Cherbourg scrapped |
SM UC-58 was a submarine of the Imperial Navy , which served as a minelayer submarine.
Technical specifications
- Displacement: Surface 415 t , submerged 498 t or 594 t.
- Length: 51.67 m.
- Width: 5.22 m.
- Draft: 3.61 m.
- Drive : diesel engine / electric motor .
- Power : 600/620 hp .
- Speed : surfaced 11.6 kn , submerged 7.3 kn.
- Oil supply: 56 t.
- Dive time : 30-33 sec .
- Armament : 1 8.8 cm SK-L / 30 gun , three torpedo tubes (2 in the bow, 1 in the stern), 18 mines in 6 shafts.
- Crew : 27 men.
commitment
On May 9, 1917, UC-58 sank the steamship Kyros; its cargo was recovered in 2019.
On September 28, 1917, UC-58 was in Tagga Bay for reconnaissance as part of the Albion operation .
From April 20, 1918 to May 5, 1918 UC-58 was overhauled in Brunsbüttelkoog . Then it was ordered to the east coast of Scotland . On November 5th, UC-58 was back in Brunsbüttelkoog.
Web links
- UC 58's war diaries in the Federal Archives
- UC 58.uboat.net
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Lettens: SS Kyros (+1917). In: https://www.wrecksite.eu . https://www.wrecksite.eu , July 2, 2011, accessed November 10, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Divers salvage 900 bottles of rare French cognac and liqueur from Swedish shipwreck. November 4, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019 (UK English).
- ↑ Michael B. Barrett: Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands . Indiana University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-253-00353-9 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Guides to the Microfilmed Records of the German Navy, 1850-1945 . National Archives and Records Service, US General Services Administration, 1984 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).