SM U 64
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat MS (mobilization) type UA |
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| Series: | U 63 - U 65 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 248 | |
| Launch: | February 29, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | April 15, 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: | 10 | |
| Successes: | 45 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk by the British sloop Lychnis in the Mediterranean south-east of Sardinia on June 17, 1918 . | |
SM U 64 was a submarine of the German Imperial Navy during the First World War .
history
SM U 64 was built in 1915 at the Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard and put into service on April 15, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Robert Moraht .
The boat undertook a mission in the North Sea in September , but then operated from November 1916, as part of the U-Flotilla Pola and later the U-Flotilla Mediterranean , from the KuK naval bases Cattaro and Pola on a total of eight missions in the Mediterranean . On 19 March 1917 he succeeded the sinking of the French pre- Dreadnought - battleship Danton . In addition, the boat sank 45 merchant ships with a total of 129,569 GRT . Three more with 12,871 GRT were damaged, one with 186 GRT taken as a prize .
technology
The diesel engines of the submarines U 63 - U 65 were originally commissioned for the Russian Navy . Due to the First World War, however, they were confiscated by the German Reich and simplified submarine bodies "built around".
Whereabouts
On June 17, 1918, SM U 64 attacked a convoy between Sardinia and Sicily . North of Cap Bon , the submarine was to damage from two depth charges forced to surface and buglastig to flooding. According to the British representation, the submarine was rammed by the HMS Lychnis after surfacing and shot at by the HMS Partridge and sank. The deck gun could no longer be manned in time. Only five members of the crew survived: the commander, Pour-le-Mérite porter Robert Moraht, an officer on watch and three seamen. The remaining 37 men drowned.
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 , p. 51.
- Robert Moraht: Werewolf of the Seas. "U 64" chases the enemy. Vorhut-Verlag Otto Schlegel, Berlin (1st – 3rd edition, 1934)
- Ships, people, fates: issue no. 113, submarine "U 64" . Publishing house Rudolf Stade.
Web links
- The wreck of the Danton on www.wrecksite.eu
- SM U 64 on www.uboat.net
- Robert Moraht on www.uboat.net
- http://u64.iyteman.de/
- Danton class, photos and documents
- Memorial plaque for U 64 at the submarine memorial in Möltenort
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The U-Flotilla Pola was formed on November 18, 1915 from the previous German U-Flotilla Pola, which was set up on July 1, 1915, was renamed the U-Flotilla Mediterranean in June 1917 after the arrival of further boats . January 1918 divided into the I. U-Flotilla Mediterranean (in Pola ) and the II. U-Flotilla Mediterranean (in Cattaro ).
Coordinates: 38 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E
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