SM U 8
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 SM U 8 (back row, far right) in the Kiel submarine harbor , 1914 |
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| Submarine type: | Hans Techel two-hull ocean-going boat |
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| Series: | U 5 - U 8 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Displacement: | 505 tons (above water) 636 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 57.30 m | |
| Width: | 5.60 m | |
| Draft: | 3.55 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 3.75 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 30 m | |
| Dive time: | 65 s | |
| Drive: | Petroleum motors 900 HP E-machines 1040 HP |
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| Speed: | 13.4 knots (above water) 10.2 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes 1 revolver cannon (until the end of 1914) 1 × 50 mm cannon (from 1915) |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 25 men |
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| Successes: | 5 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | Got caught in a network blocking off the south of England on March 4, 1915 and was sunk by British destroyers. | |
SM U 8 was a petroleum-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy during the First World War .
Calls
U 8 was launched on March 14, 1911 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel and was put into service on June 18, 1911. The commanders of the submarine were Wilhelm-Friedrich Starke , Konrad Gansser and Alfred Stoss .
In five war missions, the commanders and their crews achieved five sinkings of British merchant ships with a total tonnage of 15,049 GRT .
Whereabouts
On March 4, 1915, U 8 traveling westward in the English Channel got into a newly created British network barrier , part of the Dover barrier that was still under construction . The unsuccessful attempts to rescue the submarine drew the attention of the crew of the fishing steamer Robur , which alerted a Royal Navy fighter group. The hunt group consisted of the following destroyers from the Dover Patrol : Cossack , Falcon , Fawn , Ghurka , Kangaroo , Leven , Maori , Mohawk , Nubian , Syren , Ure and Viking . The Gurkha launched an explosive device that hit U 8 shortly after 6 p.m. and exploded. This resulted in water ingress, lighting and machine failure as well as a fire inside the submarine. Captain Stoss was therefore forced to appear. He ordered the crew to disembark. The destroyers Gurkha and Maori took the boat under artillery fire. It fell roughly on the position 50 ° 34 ' N , 1 ° 9' O . All crew members were rescued by the British.
Others
On March 4, 1915, Stoss and his officers were invited to dinner on the British supply ship Arrogant . There they were asked by the British - apparently under the influence of alcohol - to sing a song hostile to England.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 67.
- ^ The Sinking . Informational text on The U 8th Educational Virtual Dive , accessed on July 23, 2018.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 11.
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 .
Web links
- uboat.net WWI U-boats U 8
- Virtual dive to U 8 from Historic England and MSDS Marine
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