SM U 32
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 31 - U 41 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Displacement: | 685 tons (above water) 878 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 64.70 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.56 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 50-100 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 1850 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.4 knots (above water) 9.7 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6–10 torpedoes 2 × 8.8 cm deck guns (until 1917) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (from 1917) |
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| Mission data | ||
| Crew: | 4 officers 31 men |
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| Calls: | 11 | |
| Successes: | 35 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk on May 8, 1918 in the Mediterranean by the British submarine hunter Wallflower . | |
SM U 32 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 32 was launched on 28 January 1914 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on September 3 1914th The commanders of the boat were Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1914–1916), Kurt Hartwig (1916–1918) and Kurt Albrecht (1918).
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U 32 carried out 11 patrols during the First World War , from November 8, 1916 as part of the U-Flotilla Pola in the Mediterranean , on which a total of 36 ships of the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 114,288 GRT were sunk. The sinking of the British liner Cornwallis is particularly noteworthy. The Cornwallis was one of the largest warships of the Entente to be sunk in World War I. On January 9, 1917 U 32 under Kurt Hartwig scored a torpedo hit on the starboard side 60 nautical miles east of the British naval base in Malta . Thus, the received Cornwallis slight list . About 75 minutes after the first hit, Hartwig managed another hit, also on starboard, whereupon the Cornwallis sank within 30 minutes. 15 men died in the torpedo hits, the rest of the crew could be rescued because the ship of the line was controllable for a long time before it sank.
Whereabouts
On May 8, 1918, U 32 under Kurt Albrecht attacked a convoy moving from Gibraltar to Alexandria . The British warship Wallflower became aware of U 32 and sank the submarine through artillery fire and subsequent depth charges . All 41 crew members including the commander perished. As an approximate sub-crossing point, the following coordinates are valid northwest of Malta : 36 ° 7 ' N , 13 ° 28' O .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ In some sources Wildflower is given as the ship's name.
- ↑ 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. 48.
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 .
Web links
- uboat.net WWI U-boats U 32 (English)
- Memorial plaque for U 32 at the submarine memorial in Möltenort
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