SM U 29
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 27 - U 30 | |
| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig (Plant 19) | |
| Displacement: | 685 tons (above water) 878 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 64.70 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.48 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2000 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.4 knots (above water) 9.8 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes 6 torpedoes 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 31 NCOs and men |
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| Calls: | 1 patrol | |
| Successes: | 4 sunk, 2 damaged merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk on March 18, 1915 in the Pentland Firth by the HMS Dreadnought . | |
SM U 29 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 29 was launched on 11 October 1913 at the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack and was on 1 August 1914. under the command of Lieutenant Plange Wilhelm put into service. On February 16, 1915, Lieutenant Otto Weddigen took command.
On March 10, 1915 was U 29 of Zeebrugge for the first use under Weddigen out. It reached its area of operations in the Irish Sea and sank the British steamers The Headlands , Indian City , Andalusian and the French steamer Auguste Conseil with a total of 12,934 GRT in the next few days . The British steamers Adenwen and Atalanta were badly damaged.
Whereabouts
On the march back around Scotland U 29 encountered the Grand Fleet on March 18, 1915, east of the Pentland Firth (between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney Islands ) . She was on her way home to her base at Scapa Flow . After a miss shot on the battleship HMS Neptune , the periscope of the submarine on the battleship HMS Dreadnought was sighted. Weddigen was no longer able to go deep in time. At about 1:40 p.m., the Dreadnought rammed the German boat, which shot to the surface with the forecastle for a short time. The boat number was identified. Then U 29 sank . Otto Weddigen and his entire team were killed. It was the only military action of the Dreadnought during naval warfare in World War I .
As an approximate lower transition point following coordinates are valid: 58 ° 20 ' N , 0 ° 57' O .
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