SM U 54
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 51 - U 56 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Launch: | February 22, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | May 25, 1916 | |
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| 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 1 or 2 × 8.8 cm deck gun (s) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (from 1916/17) |
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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 12 | |
| Successes: | 26 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Italy on November 24, 1918. Wrecked in Taranto in May 1919. | |
SM U-54 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used.
Calls
U 54 ran on 22 February 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 25 May in 1916. The commanders of the submarine were Volkhard Freiherr von Bothmer (May 16, 1916 - May 19, 1917), Kurt Heeseler (May 20, 1917 - March 22, 1918) and Hellmuth von Ruckteschell (March 23, 1918 - November 11, 1918 ).
The submarine belonged to the 2nd submarine flotilla with its home port of Helgoland and the Wilhelmshaven repair yard .
During the First World War, U 54 carried out 12 patrols in the North Sea and in the eastern North Atlantic . A total of 26 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 68,228 GRT were sunk. On July 16, 1918, the British sloop Anchusa with 1,290 GRT was sunk north of Ireland . The ship, which had been converted for submarine hunting , sank as a result of a torpedo hit and the subsequent explosion of the depth charge . 78 seafarers were killed.
On September 5, 1917, U 54 narrowly escaped a disaster when it touched the anchor chain of a mine north of Terschelling . Instead, the U 88 boat behind it was hit by a mine .
Whereabouts
The submarine survived the First World War without being sunk itself. Shortly after the end of the war, on November 24, 1918, U 54 was delivered to the Kingdom of Italy and scrapped in Taranto in May 1919 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 34.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 90.
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 54 (engl.)
- Website with data and many photos about SM U 54
- History and missions of U 54. Description based on the KTB and original reports from crew members.
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