SM U 63
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 63 - U 65 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 247 | |
| Launch: | February 8, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | March 11, 1916 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 810 tons (above water) 927 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 68.36 m | |
| Width: | 6.30 m | |
| Draft: | 4.04 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.15 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 30-50 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2200 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.5 knots (above water) 9 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes 1 or 2 × 8.8 cm deck guns 1 × 10.5 cm deck guns (until mid-1918) |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 12 | |
| Successes: | 70 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain in January 1919. Wrecked in Blyth 1919–1920. | |
The SM U 63 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 63 ran on 8 February 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on March 11, 1916th The commanders of the submarine were Otto Schultze (March 11, 1916 - August 27, 1917 and October 15, 1917 - December 24, 1917), Heinrich Metzger (August 28, 1917 - October 14, 1917) and Kurt Hartwig (25. December 1917 - November 11, 1918).
U 63 was assigned to the IV submarine flotilla in 1916 and then to the 1st Mediterranean submarine flotilla until 1918 .
During the First World War, U 63 carried out twelve patrols in the Mediterranean and the eastern North Atlantic . A total of 70 merchant ships from the Entente and neutral states with a total tonnage of 194,208 GRT were sunk. A warship was also sunk: on August 20, 1916, the British light cruiser Falmouth (5250 GRT) sank off the east coast of England by a torpedo hit. Eleven sailors were killed. The cruiser had been damaged by U 66 shortly before .
The trips in the Mediterranean took U 63 to the coast of Egypt , off which the small sailor L. Rahmanich (79 GRT) was sunk on March 26, 1917 .
The largest ship sunk by U 63 was the British troop transport Transylvania (around 14,300 GRT), which was sunk on May 4, 1917 2.5 miles south of Cape Vado in the Ligurian Sea . There were over 400 fatalities.
Measured by the total sunk tonnage, U 63 is sixth among the “most successful” German deep-sea submarines of the First World War.
technology
The diesel engines of the submarines U 63 - U 65 were originally commissioned for the Russian Navy . Due to the outbreak of the First World War, however, they were confiscated by the German Reich and simplified submarine bodies "built around".
Whereabouts
As a result of the German defeat in World War I, U 63 was delivered to Great Britain on January 16, 1919 . In 1919 and 1920 it was scrapped in Blyth in northern England .
Ships sunk by U 63 (selection)
French liner Magellan , sunk on December 11, 1916
British light cruiser Falmouth , sunk on August 20, 1916
British steamship Transylvania , sunk on May 4th 1917
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Footnotes
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 139ff.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit by U 63
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 120.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - HMS Falmouth
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - L. Rahmanich
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Transylvania
- ↑ Report on the sinking of the Transylvania in the New York Times, May 25, 1917
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 107.
- ↑ 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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