SM U 139
| SM U 139 Kapitänleutnant Schwieger ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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| Halbronn (HA) | ||
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 U 139 of the Imperial Navy (location and time unknown). |
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull deep-sea boat submarine cruiser war mission N |
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| Series: | U 139 - U 141 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard , Kiel | |
| Construction contract: | August 1, 1916 | |
| Launch: | December 3, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | May 18, 1918 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 1930 tons (above water) 2483 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 92 m | |
| Width: | 9.12 m | |
| Draft: | 5.27 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 5.75 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 75 m | |
| Dive time: | 40 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 3750 PS E-machines 1780 PS |
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| Speed: | 15.3 knots (above water) 7.6 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 4 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (19–24 torpedoes) 2 × 15 cm deck gun |
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| Mission data | ||
| Commanders: | ||
| Crew (target strength): | 6 officers 56 men, 21-member prize squad |
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| Calls: | 1 patrol | |
| Successes: | 3 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk marine trawler |
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| Whereabouts: | extradited to France on November 24, 1918; Wrecked in 1936 | |
SM U 139 ( Kapitänleutnant Schwieger ) was a submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War . In the interwar period , the boat drove for the French Navy .
particularities
U 139 is one of the largest German combat submarines ever put into service. It surpassed the largest submarines in the German submarine class X in World War II . The boat, also known as a U-cruiser or U-ship , was considered a submersible surface ship. In addition to six torpedo tubes and up to 24 torpedoes, U 139 had a comparatively strong deck artillery with several guns. It was therefore suitable for both unrestricted submarine warfare and for trade wars based on the price order . A prize detachment carried along, consisting of an officer and 20 men, was supposed to enable merchant ships to be brought in and brought in. However, the development came too late to have any noticeable impact on the course of the war.
commitment
U 139 was commissioned on 1 August 1916 expired on December 3, 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on May 18, 1918th The boat was named after the submarine commander Walther Schwieger , who fell in September 1917 . From May 1918 it was assigned to the U-Kreuzer Association in Kiel. The first and only German commanding officer was Lieutenant Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière .
U 139 led a during World War II company in the eastern North Atlantic through. Three merchant ships with a total tonnage of 6,301 GRT were sunk. The largest ship sunk by U 139 was the British freighter Bylands with 3,309 GRT, which was sunk on its voyage from Bona to Dublin on October 1, 1918 with a cargo of phosphate about 150 miles north-northwest of Cape Vilano. In addition, on October 14, 1918, the Portuguese naval trawler Augusto De Castilho (487 GRT) was sunk about 100 miles southwest of the Azores . The trawler had previously successfully repelled the attack by U 139 on the Portuguese steamer São Miguel .
Whereabouts
U 139 was delivered to France on November 24, 1918 . From October 6, 1921 to July 24, 1935, the boat was in service with the French Navy under the name Halbronn . In 1936 it was scrapped.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sarah Uttridge (Project Management): submarines. Parragon Books Ltd, Bath n.d., ISBN 978-1-4075-8418-8 , pp. 32f.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 138.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 123.
- ↑ According to www.uboat.net: Ships hit by U 139 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Bylands
- ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: D / S Bylands
- ↑ www.ubaot.net: Ships hit during WWI - Augusto De Castilho (Engl.)
- ↑ www.wrecksite.eu: Augusto De Castilho
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 92.
- ↑ Deutsches U-Boot-Museum: Distribution of the U-Boot (Imperial Navy) ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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