SM U 27
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| Submarine type: | Two-hull deep-sea boat type U 27 - U 30 |
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| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig | |
| Displacement: | 675 tons (above water) 867 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 64.70 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.48 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-80 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2 × 1000 PS E-machines 2 × 600 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.7 knots (above water) 9.8 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes 50 cm, 6–10 torpedoes 2 × 8.8 cm cannons |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 31 men |
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| Successes: | 1 sunk submarine, 1 sunk aircraft mother ship , 9–10 sunk merchant ships |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk on August 19, 1915 by the British submarine trap Baralong . | |
SM U 27 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy during the First World War .
Calls
U 27 was commissioned on February 19, 1912. The boat was launched on July 14, 1913 at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig and was put into service on May 8, 1914. Its first and only commander was Lieutenant Commander Bernd Wegener .
At the beginning of the First World War, Wegener was able to achieve two successes against warships of the Royal Navy . On October 18, 1914, U 27 sank the British submarine E3 and on October 31, 1914 the British aircraft mother ship Hermes . In addition, a total of nine (according to other sources ten) merchant ships with a total of 29,402 and 31,120 GRT were sunk from March to August 1915 .
Whereabouts
On August 19, 1915, U 27 had stopped the mule truck Nicosian 70 nautical miles south of Queenstown when the boat was surprised by the British submarine trap Baralong , which was sailing under the American flag . The Baralong fired from only a few hundred meters 34 shots on the submarine, which sank to the following location: 50 ° 25 ' N , 8 ° 15' W . On the orders of the British commander, Godfrey Herbert, firing continued at about a dozen castaways floating in the water. Lieutenant Wegener was also killed. Four submariners were able to swim to the Nicosian , but were tracked down shortly afterwards by a British commando in the engine room and also shot.
Germany and the United States raised allegations against this alleged war crime and the illegal waging of the stars and stripes . However, despite American witnesses from the Nicosian , the incident was not classified as a war crime after 1918, although it met all the criteria for it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ uboat.net U 27
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 15.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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