SM U 48
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 43 - U 50 | |
| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig | |
| Launch: | October 3, 1915 | |
| Commissioning: | April 22, 1916 | |
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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: | 8th | |
| Successes: | 34 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Stranded southeast of England on November 24, 1917. Self-blown after artillery fire. | |
The SM U 48 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 48 was launched on October 3, 1915 at the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 22 April 1916th The commanders of the submarine were Berndt Buß (April 22, 1916 - March 9, 1917), Hinrich Hermann Hashagen (March 10 - 16, 1917) and Karl Edeling (March 17 - November 24, 1917).
During the First World War, U 48 carried out eight patrols in the eastern North Atlantic and in the Barents Sea . A total of 34 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 103,552 GRT were sunk. Among them was the British passenger ship Minnehaha with 13,443 GRT, which was sunk south of Ireland on September 7, 1917 . 43 crew members were killed. At the time of the sinking there were no passengers on board.
A few months before the last patrol, the submarine was in action in the English Channel and sank a British ammunition steamer. The submerged U 48 came under the sinking steamer, lost the master and the chief officer in the tower and sank to the bottom in almost 90 meters of water. After 24 hours, the team, led by the 2nd officer, Hinrich Hermann Hashagen, managed to get on with the last of the compressed air and bring the badly damaged boat to Wilhelmshaven. The commanding 2nd officer Hashagen received a new command on another submarine. U 48 was repaired and sent on patrol again.
Whereabouts
On November 23, 1917, U 48 was on a patrol in the Dover Strait . Captain Karl Edeling wanted to turn back due to the unusually bright moonlight . He got into a network lock north of the Goodwin Sands and ran aground. The following day, the stranded submarine was sighted by a group of patrol boats. The boats were Paramount , Majesty , Present Help , Feasible , Acceptable and Claud Hamilton . The ships opened fire, which was returned by U 48 with the deck gun. When the destroyer Gypsy also approached, the submarine was blown up by its own crew. The survivors, 22 submariners, surrendered to the British Navy. Edeling was among the fallen. The self-detonation occurred about the following positions: 51 ° 11 ' N , 1 ° 31' O . The wreck was not lifted. However, it is sometimes visible at low tide due to the migration of the sandbank .
In the early 1970s, the tower of the submarine briefly appeared at low tide off Ramsgate (BILD reported). A few days later the wreck sank completely in the sand / silt.
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit by U 48
- ^ Evidenced by a telegram from the Imperial Navy to Hinrich Hashagen - in the possession of the family along with other documents.
- ↑ 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. 38f.
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 .
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