SM U 59
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 57 - U 59 | |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen | |
| Build number: | 214 | |
| Launch: | June 20, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | September 7, 1916 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 786 tons (above water) 954 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 67.00 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.79 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 30-49 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 1800 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 14.7 knots (above water) 8.4 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern torpedo tubes, 7 torpedoes 1 or 2 × 8.8 cm deck gun (s) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 4th | |
| Successes: | 13 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | On May 14, 1917, when leaving the North Sea, ran into a German mine and sank. | |
SM U 59 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 59 ran on 20 June 1916, which AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on September 7 1916th The first and only commander of the submarine was Freiherr Wilhelm von Fircks .
U 59 carried out four patrols in the North Sea and in the eastern North Atlantic during the First World War . A total of 13 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 18,763 GRT were sunk, including the former German full-ship Najade . The largest ship sunk by U 59 was the British passenger ship Canadian (9,309 GRT). The Canadian was attacked on April 5, 1917 en route from Boston to Liverpool about 47 miles northwest of Fastnet, Ireland. There was one fatality.
Whereabouts
U 59 was escorted into the North Sea by three lock breakers on the evening of May 14, 1917 . In stormy weather, however, the submarine got further north than intended. Thus, it went to a new-laid German minefield west of Horns Rev . U 59 collided with one of the mines and sank as a result of the explosion. At first it looked like a large part of the submarine crew could be saved. But the escort ships also got into the minefield in the dark. In the end, only four men of the 37-man crew at the time of the sinking survived. As an approximate demise following point position is indicated: 55 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 13' O .
The wreck of U 59 was discovered in 2002 by a Danish diving expedition. The submarine is at a depth of 33 meters and broke in two. The 10.5 cm deck gun was recovered and is now on display in the St. George Stranding Museum in Thorsminde .
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit by U 59
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 90.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 27.
- ↑ site to find of U 59 (Engl.) ( Memento of 19 July 2011 at the Internet Archive )
- ^ Photo of a U 59 gun ( Memento from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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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