SM U 37
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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) 824 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: | 1 | |
Successes: | 2 sunk merchant ships | |
Whereabouts: | Missed since early April 1915, probably struck by a mine east of the Dover Strait. |
SM U 37 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 37 was launched on 25 August 1914 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 9 December 1914th The first and only captain in command of the boat was Kapitänleutnant Erich Wilke .
U 37 only carried out an incomplete patrol on which two merchant ships of the Entente with a total tonnage of 2811 GRT were sunk.
Whereabouts
On March 20, 1915, U 37 ran out on a patrol in the English Channel . The submarine has been missing since the beginning of April. It is assumed that U 37 ran into a mine while marching back north of Zeebrugge or east of the Dover Strait , killing all 35 crew members. The submarine could also have sunk due to an accident due to technical defects or human error .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ 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. 12.
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 .