SM U 62
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 60 - U 62 | |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen | |
| Build number: | 217 | |
| Launch: | August 2, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | December 30, 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 × 10.5 cm deck gun |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 9 | |
| Successes: | 46 sunk merchant ships 2 sunk warships |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain in November 1918. Wrecked in Bo'ness 1919–1920. | |
SM U 62 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy in the First World War .
Calls
U 62 was on 2 August 1916, which AG Weser in Bremen from the stack and was put into service on 30 December 1916th The commanders of the submarine were Ernst Hashagen (December 30, 1916 to December 24, 1917 and March 10, 1918 to November 11, 1918) and Otto Wiebalck (December 25, 1917 to March 9, 1918).
U 62 was assigned to the 2nd submarine flotilla within the 1st submarine flotilla .
The boat carried out nine patrols in the North Sea and the eastern North Atlantic during the First World War . A total of 46 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 123,252 GRT were sunk. In addition, a small and a large warship were sunk:
On April 30, 1917, the British sloop and submarine trap Tulip sank with 1,250 GRT southwest of Ireland after a torpedo hit; 102 seamen were killed. The commander of the submarine trap, Norman McCrea Lewis , was captured and gave lectures in England in 1929 with the commander of U 62 Hashagen.
On August 7, 1918, the French armored cruiser Dupetit-Thouars (9,517 GRT) was sunk 400 miles west of Brest . the crew could be rescued up to 13 men by US destroyers .
The largest ship sunk by U 62 was the British auxiliary cruiser Orama (12,927 GRT), which was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland on October 19, 1917 . There were five fatalities.
On October 19, 1917, U 62 shelled the express steamer J. L. Luckenbach - the formerly German Saale - about 160 miles west of Ouessant in the Bay of Biscay . The steamer's cargo caught fire. The US destroyer Nicholson helped the ship by pushing U 62 away and assisting in extinguishing the fire. Both ships reached Le Havre on October 21, 1917 . There were nine injured on the Entente side, but no dead.
Whereabouts
After the end of the war, U 62 was delivered to Great Britain on November 21 or 22, 1918 . In 1919 and 1920 it was scrapped in Bo'ness .
Ships sunk by U 62 (selection)
Norwegian coal freighter Storstad , sunk on March 8, 1917
British auxiliary cruiser Orama , sunk on October 19, 1917
British ocean liner Ausonia , sunk on May 30, 1918
French armored cruiser Dupetit-Thouars , sunk on August 7, 1918
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Footnotes
- ↑ uboat.net Lieutenant Commander Ernst
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 136.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit by U 62
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 120.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - HMS Tulip
- ^ Ernst Hashagen: U-Boats westward! . Berlin: ES Mittler and Son, 1931, p. 7
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Dupetit-thouars
- ↑ In Herzog, October 18, 1917 is given as the date of destruction.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Orama
- ↑ With Herzog the 21st, with uboat.net the 22nd November 1918 is given as the delivery date.
- ↑ 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 .
- Ernst Hashagen: U-Boats westward - My journeys around England 1914–1918 . Berlin: ES Mittler and Son, 1931
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