SM U 79
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Single-hull deep-sea boat war order E / UE |
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| Series: | U 75 - U 80 | |
| Builder: | Vulkan shipyard, Hamburg | |
| Build number: | 61 | |
| Launch: | April 9, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | May 25, 1916 (German Navy) June 1, 1922 (French Navy) |
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 755 tons (above water) 832 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 56.80 m | |
| Width: | 5.90 m | |
| Draft: | 4.86 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 5.00 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 40-50 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 900 PS E-machines 800 PS |
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| Speed: | 9.9 knots (above water) 7.8 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 1 × bow torpedo tube (port) 1 × stern torpedo tube (starboard) (4 torpedoes in the upper deck) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun 2 × stern mine tube (38 sea mines) |
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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 28 men |
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| Calls: | 9 | |
| Successes: | 21 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to France on November 21, 1918. 1922–1935 in service as Victor Reveille . Wrecked in 1936. | |
SM U-79 was a diesel-electric mines - submarine of the class UE of the German Imperial Navy . It was used in the First World War . After the First World War, the submarine was delivered to France and served as Victor Reveille in the French Navy until 1935 .
Special feature of the armament and motorization
The main task of U 79 was to lay sea mines, of which up to 38 could be transported inside the boat. They were laid via two outlet pipes in the stern of the boat. It was therefore not primarily a submarine for torpedo attacks. Compared to other deep-sea submarines, it was relatively weakly motorized. Even the surface speed remained in the single digits. The torpedo armament was primarily used for self-defense.
Calls
U 79 was on April 9, 1916, which Vulkan shipyard in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on 25 May in 1916. The submarine was assigned to the 1st submarine flotilla at the end of July 1916 . The commissioning commander was Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Jeß (May 25, 1916 to February 20, 1917). Other commanders were Otto Dröscher , Rudolf Haagen , Martin Hoffmann , Woldemar Petri , Otto Rohrbeck , Kurt Slevogt , Karl Thouret and Rudolf Zentner . Apart from Jeß, only Rohrbeck and Thouret were sunk.
During the First World War, U 79 carried out nine operations in the North Sea and the eastern North Atlantic , which reached as far as the coast of Portugal . 21 merchant ships of belligerent powers and neutral states with a total tonnage of 33,731 GRT and a warship with 14,100 GRT were sunk.
The largest ship sunk by U 79 was the British armored cruiser Drake , which was torpedoed north of Ireland near Rathlin on October 2, 1917 . 18 crew members died.
The largest sunk civilian ship was the Counselor with almost 5,000 GRT. The British freighter ran on its voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool on September 14, 1916 off the Irish south coast on a mine laid by U 79 and sank. The British freighter Camito was even larger at over 6,600 GRT, but was only damaged in a mine hit by U 79 on August 13, 1917.
Whereabouts
Ten days after the armistice , U 79 was delivered to France as spoils of war on November 21, 1918 . From June 1, 1922, the submarine was part of the French Navy under the name Victor Reveille (short: VR ). On July 27, 1935 it was retired and scrapped in 1936.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 136.
- ↑ uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 79 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 123.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 120.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - HMS Drake (engl.)
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Counselor (Engl.)
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Camito (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 90.
- ↑ German U-Boat Museum: Imperial Navy - whereabouts (distribution) ( memento of the original from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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