SM U 47
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 43 - U 50 | |
| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig | |
| Launch: | August 16, 1915 | |
| Commissioning: | February 28, 1915 | |
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| Displacement: | 725 tons (above water) 940 tons (under water) |
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| 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 |
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| Speed: | 15.2 knots (above water) 9.7 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes, 2 × 8.8 cm deck guns 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (from 1916/17) |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 2 | |
| Successes: | 14 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Self-destroyed on October 28, 1918 when Pola gave up. | |
SM U 47 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 47 was launched on 16 August 1915 at the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on February 28 1916th The first commander of the submarine was Heinrich Metzger , who commanded the only two missions.
During the First World War, U 47 carried out two patrols in the North and Baltic Seas as well as in the Atlantic and Mediterranean . A total of 14 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 24,075 GRT were sunk. From June 1917, U 47 was no longer deployed due to technical problems.
Whereabouts
Shortly before the abandonment of the naval port of Pola (then Austria-Hungary ), U 47 was blown up by its own crew on October 28, 1918. The submarine decreased approximately at the following position near the coast: 44 ° 52 ' N , 13 ° 50' O .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ 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 .
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