SM U 50
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U 50 ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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| Type: |
U 43 |
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| Construction contract: |
August 7, 1914 |
| Launch: |
December 31, 1915 |
| Commissioning: |
4th July 1916 |
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| Calls: |
5 patrols |
| Sinkings: |
27 ships total tonnage 92,924 GRT |
| Whereabouts: | Sank off Terschelling on August 31, 1917, 44 dead. (exact position not known) |
The U 50 was a German U- 43 submarine that was used by the German Imperial Navy during the First World War .
history
The order for the boat was placed on August 7, 1914 at the Imperial Shipyard Danzig . The launch took place on December 31, 1915, the commissioning under Lieutenant Gerhard Berger took place on July 4, 1916.
The boat belonged to the III from August 30, 1916 until its unexplained disappearance. Flotilla.
During his service, U 50 undertook five patrols on which 27 ships with a total gross tonnage of 92,924 GRT were sunk.
In February 1917, U 50 sank the British passenger steamer RMS Laconia off the Irish coast without warning , which came from New York with just under 300 passengers . Twelve people were killed in the sinking, including two Americans, which led to considerable political tension between the United States and the German Reich.
Whereabouts
U 50 marched through the defensive minefields in the German Bight on its patrol through the “Gelb” outlet route into the North Sea . On 31 August 1917, the boat radioed a position report, after it loud observers service of the Germans on the position 55 ° 15 ' N , 4 ° 10' O stand . U 50 has been missing since then . No sinking of the boat was mentioned in British sources. At the end of September, the commander's body was driven to one of the North Frisian Islands . An examination found the body had been in the water for about a month. Presumably U 50 ran into one of the almost 2000 mines that the British had laid at the exits of the mine-free exit routes for German ships at the beginning of August. On August 22nd, SM U 21 sighted a British mine-layer in front of the exit route "Gelb", but did not report this incident to the naval command. U 50 finally had to pass this area of the sea. It is likely that the boat ran into one of these sea mines, but it can also have been lost due to an average due to technical defects or human error.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The SM stands for His Majesty and refers to the then ruling German Kaiser Wilhelm II. It reads completely: His Majesty's U-boat , for surface units His Majesty's ship - SMS for short .
literature
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
Web links
- U 50 at uboat.net (English)
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