SM U 60
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 60 - U 62 | |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen | |
| Build number: | 215 | |
| Launch: | July 5, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | November 1, 1916 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 768 tons (above water) 956 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 67.00 m | |
| Width: | 6.32 m | |
| Draft: | 3.74 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.05 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 30-50 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.5 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: | 10 | |
| Successes: | 52 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain on November 21, 1918. Stranded on the way to the wreckage in 1921 off the east coast of England. | |
SM U-60 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used.
Calls
U 60 ran on 5 July 1916, which AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on 1 November 1916th The commanders of the submarine were Karlgeorg Schuster (November 1, 1916 - October 31, 1917), Karl Jasper (November 1, 1917 - November 20, 1917) and Franz Grünert (November 21, 1917 - November 11, 1918).
During the First World War, U 60 carried out ten patrols in the North Sea and in the eastern North Atlantic . A total of 52 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 108,191 GRT were sunk. The largest ship sunk by U 60 was the British cargo ship Armadale with troops and equipment (6,153 GRT). The Armadale was attacked on June 27, 1917 en route from Manchester to Thessaloniki about 160 miles northwest of Tory Island, Ireland. There were three fatalities.
technology
Technically, the U 60 differed only slightly from its predecessor boats from the U 57 - U 59 series . However, it had more powerful diesel engines that allowed it to travel faster above the water.
Whereabouts
U 60 was extradited to the United Kingdom on November 21, 1918 . On the transfer trip for final scrapping in 1921, the submarine ran aground off the east coast of England and was abandoned.
Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit by U 60
- ↑ 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 .
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