SM U 43

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SM U 43
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German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge)
Technical specifications
Submarine type: Two-hull ocean-going boat
Series: U 43 - U 50
Builder: Imperial Shipyard, Danzig
Displacement: 725 tons (above water)
940 tons (under water)
Length: 65.00 m
Width: 6.20 m
Draft: 3.74 m
Pressure body ø: 4.18 m
Max. Diving depth: 50 m
Dive time: 55-105 s
Drive: Diesel engines 2000 PS
E-machines 1200 PS
Speed: 15.2 knots (above water)
9.7 knots (under water)
Armament: 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes
1/2 × 88 mm cannon / n
1 × 105 mm cannon (from 1916/17)
P mines (from 1916)
Crew: 4 officers
32 men
Successes: 44 sunk merchant ships
Whereabouts: Delivered to Great Britain on January 20, 1919. Wrecked in Swansea in 1922 .

SM U 43 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy during the First World War .

fate

U 43 was launched on 26 September 1914 at the Imperial Shipyard Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 30 April 1915th The commanders of the boat were Hellmuth Jürst, Waldemar Bender and Johannes Kirchner in order.

In the course of the war, the boat sank 44 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 116,590 GRT .

U 43 survived the war. It was delivered to Great Britain on January 20, 1919 and scrapped in Swansea in 1922 .

Others

In contrast to many other deep-sea submarines of the Imperial Navy, U 43 , like its sister boat U 44 , did not have a keel .

Individual evidence

  1. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
  2. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 89.
  3. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 48.

literature

  • Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .

Web links

uboat.net U 43

http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/cross-search/search/_1528390971/  : Enter U-43, search results page 3