SM U 52
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 51 - U 56 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Launch: | December 8, 1915 | |
| Commissioning: | March 16, 1916 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 715 tons (above water) 902 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 65.20 m | |
| Width: | 6.44 m | |
| Draft: | 3.64 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 55-105 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 17.1 knots (above water) 9.1 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 8 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: | 4th | |
| Successes: | 28 sunk merchant ships 3 sunk warships |
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| Whereabouts: | Sank in an accident in the Kiel Canal in October 1917; lifted and delivered to Great Britain on November 21, 1918. Wrecked in Swansea in 1922. | |
The SM U 52 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 52 was launched on December 8, 1915 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on March 16, 1916th In chronological order, the commanders of the submarine were Hans Walther , Johannes Spieß , Siegfried Claaßen , Waldemar Haumann and Franz Krapohl .
U 52 carried out four enemy voyages in the eastern North Atlantic and the Mediterranean during the First World War . A total of 28 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 71,225 GRT were sunk. In addition, several warships were sunk. Among other things, the British light cruiser Nottingham with 5,400 GRT was sunk off the coast of Scotland on August 19, 1916 . On November 25, 1916, U 52 was able to sink the French liner Suffren with 12,750 GRT near Lisbon .
At the end of October 1917 there was a torpedo explosion in the stern torpedo room near Kiel at the entrance to the Kiel Canal , as a result of which U 52 sank at about 54 ° 20 ' N , 10 ° 10' E. Six crew members were killed in the accident. At the Nordfriedhof Kiel there is a memorial with the names of those killed. On October 31, 1917, the submarine was lifted and repaired.
Whereabouts
U 52 was extradited to the United Kingdom on November 21, 1918 and scrapped in Swansea in 1922 .
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 .
Web links
- uboat.net WWI U-boats: U 52 (English)
- Memorial plaque for U 52 at the submarine memorial in Möltenort
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