SM U 28
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| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 27 - U 30 | |
| 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 2000 PS E-machines 1200 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, 6–10 torpedoes, 2 × 8.8 cm deck guns |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 31 men |
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| Successes: | 39 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Sank in the Arctic Ocean on September 2, 1917 as a result of the Olive Branch explosion . | |
The SM U 28 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 28 was launched on 30 August 1913 at the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 26 June 1914th The commissioning commander of the submarine was Georg Günther Freiherr von Forstner . Other commanders were Otto Rohrbeck , Degenhart Freiherr von Loë and Georg Schmidt .
On March 28, 1915, U 28 sank the British passenger steamer Falaba in St. George's Canal , killing 104 people. Among the dead passengers was the first American fatality in World War I , which created tension between the United States and the German Reich.
U 28 carried out five war missions between 1915 and 1917. A total of 39 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 93,782 GRT were sunk.
Whereabouts
On September 2, 1917 submerged U 28 torpedoed the British cargo ship Olive Branch , which was attacked off the North Cape on its voyage to Arkhangelsk . After the freighter was damaged by a torpedo and stopped, the crew of the Olive Branch lowered the dinghies and got to safety. The submarine appeared and Kapitänleutnant Schmidt ordered the sinking to be completed with the deck gun. The second shot caused the ammunition being transported to explode in the ship's hold. Airborne debris from the Olive Branch damaged the nearby submarine so badly that it began to sink itself. Some submarine drivers managed to get out in time. However, since they were not rescued by the British sailors in the dinghies, all 39 submariners including the commander were killed. : As an approximate lower transition point following coordinates are 72 ° 24 ' N , 27 ° 56' O .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ In a similar way, the German submarine U 132 was lost in the Second World War, which also sank due to the explosion of a torpedoed ammunition transport.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 89.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 33.
literature
- Bodo Herzog : German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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