SM U 30

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Wreck of U 30 in the Ems after recovery. Date of recording unknown
SM U 30
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German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge)
Technical specifications
Submarine type: Two-hull ocean-going boat
Series: U 27 - U 30
Builder: Imperial Shipyard Gdansk
Displacement: 675 tons (above water)
867 tons (under water)
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
Speed: 16.7 knots (above water)
9.8 knots (under water)
Armament: 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6–10 torpedoes
1–2 × 8.8 cm deck gun / s (until 1918)
1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (from 1918)
Mission data
Crew: 4 officers
31 men
Calls: 6 patrols
Successes: 26 sunk merchant ships
1 damaged merchant ship
Whereabouts: Extradited to the United Kingdom on November 22, 1918. Wrecked in Blyth 1919–1920.

SM U 30 was a submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .

Calls

U 30 was launched on 15 November 1913 at the Imperial Shipyard Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 26 August 1914th The first in command was Erich von Rosenberg-Gruszcynski . On May 1, 1916, Franz Grünert took command.

U 30 carried out six patrols during the First World War . A total of 26 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 47,383 GRT were sunk. On May 1, 1915, the crew of U 30 torpedoed the US tanker Gulflight near the Isles of Scilly and damaged it. The incident contributed to the deterioration in diplomatic relations between the then still neutral United States and the German Reich.

On 22 June 1915, came before the Ems estuary in position 53 ° 33 '  N , 6 ° 40'  O to a fire on board, as a result, consequently, the submarine sank. The boat was at a depth of 40 meters, the 31-person crew was locked in U 30 . As there was still hope of rescuing 13 crew members who had survived in an air bubble, several rescue attempts were made, including the lifting ship SMS Vulkan , but they failed because the cables tore.

On August 27, 1915, U 30 was salvaged by the lifting vessels North Sea and Baltic Sea . The recovered corpses were buried in the cemetery of honor in Emden . In 1916 the boat was put back into service after the repair.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, U 30 was extradited to the United Kingdom on November 22, 1918 . Between 1919 and 1920 the boat was broken up in Blyth .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
  2. ↑ a b Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 89.

literature

  • Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
  • Jens Bald: accidents, hopes, helpers. Ship accidents in the mouth of the Ems and off Borkum , Borkum (Burchana-Verlag) 2011.

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