SM U 19
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 SM U 19 (front, 2nd from right) in the submarine port of Kiel 1914 |
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 19- U 22 | |
| Displacement: | 650 tons (above water) 873 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 64.15 m | |
| Width: | 6.10 m | |
| Draft: | 3.58 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Drive: | Two MAN 6-cylinder diesel engines with 850 HP each. Two AEG double E machines with 600 HP each |
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| Armament: | 2 bow tubes / 2 stern tubes Ø 50 cm / 9 torpedoes 1 × 8.8 cm (artillery, until 1916) 2 × 8.8 cm (artillery, from 1916) 1 × 10.5 cm (artillery, after 1917) |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 31 crew |
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| Speed: | 15.4 knots (above water) 9.5 knots (under water) |
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| Launch: | October 10, 1912 | |
| Commissioning: | July 6, 1913 | |
| Calls: | 29 | |
| Successes: | 55 ships with 101,389 GRT | |
| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain, broken up in Blyth between 1919 and 1920. | |
SM U 19 was a submarine of the German Imperial Navy .
Technical
U 19 belonged to the U-boat inspection project type 20 and was the type ship of the series U 19 to U 22 . It was laid down on October 20, 1911 and put into service on July 6, 1913.
U 19 was the first submarine of the Imperial Navy that no longer worked with a petroleum-powered internal combustion engine, but with a diesel engine. In fact, it had almost all of the benefits that were expected from it. This increased operational safety and maneuverability, while fuel consumption fell and engine maintenance was significantly simplified. That the Navy was apparently very satisfied with this submarine class is also shown by the fact that the type remained essentially unchanged up to the U 41 . There was only a small design flaw in the U 19 engines . The range of critical speeds, i.e. the range in which the torques suddenly increase many times over, was significantly lower than expected. Since this area had already been reached at a speed of more than 12 knots, the engines were finally replaced and the boat overhauled in September 1915.
Calls
From August 1, 1914 to March 15, 1916 U 19 was commanded by Constantin Kolbe . He was replaced by Raimund Weisbach , who had previously served as a watch officer on U 20 and, on the orders of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, shot down the torpedo that sank the RMS Lusitania . This eventually led to a serious diplomatic crisis with the United States of America.
During his command, Weisbach had an unusual mission to fulfill: On April 20, 1916, U 19 brought the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger David Casement and two comrades to Ballyheige Bay in Ireland , as they wanted to fight for Ireland's independence from Great Britain there (see: Easter Rising ). The German Reich hoped that this would distract Great Britain from the war on mainland Europe. U 19 was supposed to meet the arms transporter Libau in Ballyheige Bay , which operated under the Norwegian cover name Aud . For reasons unknown to this day, the two ships missed each other and Casement was unable to contact the weapons transporter.
U 19 undertook a total of 29 patrols , on which it sank 55 ships with a total tonnage of 101,789 GRT . The largest ship sunk by U 19 on March 1, 1918 was the British auxiliary cruiser Calgarian (17,515 GRT) near the Northern Irish island of Rathlin Island .
Mishaps
On May 24, 1917, the U 19 almost made a serious mistake, the near sinking of U 155 , one of the most modern German submarines at the time. Believing to have stumbled upon a British submarine, Spieß made a torpedo clear. Shortly before he gave the order to trigger the torpedo, however, he discovered certain peculiarities of German submarines. Here, however, the fault lay with the commander of the submarines, who had not informed U 19 that U 155 was leaving .
On April 24, 1918, U 19 encountered the German deep-sea fleet on the open sea . Believing that he had sighted a large part of the British Grand Fleet , Spieß reported that he had encountered a large British association, which led the deep-sea fleet to a longer, but naturally unsuccessful, search.
Whereabouts
After the end of the war, U 19 was delivered to Great Britain on November 24, 1918. Between 1919 and 1920 the boat was then scrapped in Blyth . The deck gun, a 10.5-cm L / 45 Utof C / 16, was donated by the Admiralty to the residents of Bangor in recognition of the special services of Commander Edward Barry Stuart Bingham on board HMS Nestor in the Battle of the Skagerrak in July 1916 for which he got the Victoria Cross . It is now located near the war memorial in the city's Ward Park.
Ships sunk by U 19 (selection)
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- ↑ The SM stands for His Majesty and refers to the then ruling German Kaiser Wilhelm II. It says in full: His Majesty's U-boat , for surface units His Majesty's ship - SMS for short .
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