SM U 3
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Submarine class: | U 3- U 4 | |
| Displacement: | 420 tons (above water) 510 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 51.28 m | |
| Width: | 5.60 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Drive: | Petroleum motors 2 × 173 kW E-machines 2 × 371 kW |
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| Armament | 2 bow tubes / 2 stern tubes / 6 torpedoes 1 × 5 cm (artillery) |
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| Crew: | 3 officers 19 men |
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| Speed: | 11.5 kn (21 km / h) over water 9.5 kn (18 km / h) under water |
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| Calls: | 4 patrols | |
| Successes: | no | |
| Whereabouts: | Wrecked on January 27, 1919 in Kiel | |
SM U 3 ( His Majesty Submarine 3 ) was a German submarine of the Imperial Navy . It was commissioned on August 13, 1907 and laid down in the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig . The launch took place on March 27, 1909, the delivery on May 29, 1909.
Before the First World War
On January 17, 1911, the only German submarine accident before the First World War occurred: U 3 sank in the port of Kiel . Presumably one of the ballast tanks was accidentally flooded. Divers attached several steel cables to the hull and attempts were made to lift U 3 using a floating crane. It was possible to lift the ship up to the height of the torpedo tube flaps and then to rescue almost the entire crew with them before they suffered permanent health damage from the chlorine gas from the leaking batteries. The attempt to raise the boat further to save the three men stuck in the tower failed, however, and so it was necessary to wait until the submarine lifting ship SMS Vulkan was ready for use. However, this was too late for the commander, Kapitänleutnant Ludwig Fischer, as well as Lieutenant zS Kalbe and Obermatrose Rieper - they suffocated.
First World War
At the beginning of the First World War , U 3 was sent on four patrols into the Baltic Sea, where it was supposed to take action against the Russian Navy in cooperation with other German warships. However, it soon turned out that U 3 was unsuitable for such war missions. Therefore it was converted into a school boat in August 1914 and remained part of the training flotilla in Kiel until the end of the war.
Commanders of U 3
| May 29, 1909-17. January 1911 | Captain Ludwig Fischer |
| April 7th − 7th July 1911 | Captain Otto Weddigen |
| August − 27. October 1914 | Kptlt. Max Valentiner |
| October 1914 − May 1915 | Kptlt. Robert Groom |
| (unknown) | Kptlt. Hans Kratzsch |
| April-August 1915 | Kptlt. Erich Sittenfeld |
| May 1915– (unknown) | Kptlt. Ludwig Güntzel |
| September 1915 – April 1916 | Kptlt. Volhardt von Bothmer |
| February-May 1916 | Oblt. ZS Hellmuth von Ruckteschell |
| June-August 1916 | Kptlt. Curt Willich |
| October 1915 – March 1917 | Kptlt. Karl Edeling |
| September 1916 – April 1917 | Kptlt. Friedrich Strackerjan |
| July 1917– (unknown) | Kptlt. Bruno Krumhaar |
| (unknown) - September 1917 | Kptlt. Woldemar Adam |
| August – October 1917 | Captain Clemens Wickel |
| September – October 1917 | Captain Gernot Goetting |
| October 1917 – March 1918 | Kptlt. Friedrich Ulrich |
| February 1918– (unknown) | Kptlt. Erich Metzenthin |
| January – July 1918 | Kptlt. Hermann Metzger |
| December 1917 – July 1918 | Kptlt. Max Groom |
| March 1918 - end of the war | (unknown) |
literature
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes-Verlag Hans Jürgen Hansen, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
- Werner von Langsdorff : U-boats on the enemy. 45 German submarine drivers tell the story. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1937.
- Carl Ludwig Panknin: Submarine “U. 3 ". Publishing house for folk literature and art, Berlin 1911 ( Under the German flag 43, ZDB -ID 2233336-8 ).
- Submarine "U. 3 ". ( Ships people fates. 45, ZDB ID 1325248-3 ).
- Max Valentiner : U 38. Viking trips of a German submarine. Ullstein, Berlin 1934.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kiel submarine catastrophe, pp. 86-87
- ↑ von Langsdorff, U-Boats am Feind, p. 6
Web links
- U-Boot-Net: SM U-3
- uboat.net: U 3 (English)
- uboat.net: Type U 3 (English)
See also
Submarines : U 1 | U 2 | U 3 | U 4 | U 5 | U 6 | U 7 | U 8 | U 9 | U 10 | U 11 | U 12 | U 13 | U 14 | U 15 | U 16 | U 17 | U 18 | U 19 | U 20 | U 21 | U 22 | U 23 | U 24 | U 25 | U 26 | U 27 | U 28 | U 29 | U 30 | U 31 | U 32 | U 33 | U 34 | U 35 | U 36 | U 37 | U 38 | U 39 | U 40 | U 41 | U 42 | U 43 | U 44 | U 45 | U 46 | U 47 | U 48 | U 49 | U 50 | U 51 | U 52 | U 53 | U 54 | U 55 | U 56 | U 57 | U 58 | U 59 | U 60 | U 61 | U 62 | U 63 | U 64 | U 65 | U 66 | U 67 | U 68 | U 69 | U 70 | U 71 | U 72 | U 73 | U 74 | U 75 | U 76 | U 77 | U 78 | U 79 | U 80 | U 81 | U 82 | U 83 | U 84 | U 85 | U 86 | U 87 | U 88 | U 89 | U 90 | U 91 | U 92 | U 93 | U 94 | U 95 | U 96 | U 97 | U 98 | U 99 | U 100 | U 101 | U 102 | U 103 | U 104 | U 105 | U 106 | U 107 | U 108 | U 109 | U 110 | U 111 | U 112 | U 113 | U 114 | U 115 | U 116 | U 117 | U 118 | U 119 | U 120 | U 121 | U 122 | U 123 | U 124 | U 125 | U 126 | U 127 | U 128 | U 129 | U 130 | U 131 | U 132 | U 133 | U 134 | U 135 | U 136 | U 137 | U 138 | U 139 | U 140 | U 141 | U 142 | U 143 | U 144 | U 145 | U 146 | U 147 | U 148 | U 149 | U 150 | U 151 | U 152 | U 153 | U 154 | U 155 | U 156 | U 157 | U 158 | U 159 | U 160 | U 161 | U 162 | U 163 | U 164 | U 165 | U 166 | U 167