SM U 80
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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, Hamburg | |
| Build number: | 62 | |
| Launch: | April 22, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | June 6, 1916 | |
| 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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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 28 men |
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| Calls: | 16 | |
| Successes: | 25 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain on January 16, 1919. Wrecked in Swansea in 1922 . | |
SM U 80 a diesel-electric had mines - submarine of the class UE of the German Imperial Navy . It was used in the First World War .
Armament and motorization
The main task of U 80 was laying the sea mines, up to 38 of which 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 80 ran on 22 April 1916 near the volcano shipyard in Hamburg with the hull number 62 from the stack and was put into service on June 6, 1916th From the end of August 1916, the submarine was assigned to the 1st U-Boat Flotilla and there the 1st U-Boat Half Flotilla.
During the First World War, U 80 carried out 16 operations in the eastern North Atlantic , mostly around the British Isles . 25 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 48,880 GRT and one warship with 1,025 GRT were sunk. The civilian ships included vehicles from both warring powers and neutral states .
The largest ship sunk by U 80 was the British auxiliary cruiser Laurentic with almost 15,000 GRT. The former passenger ship sank north of Ireland on January 25, 1917 , roughly between Fanad and Malin Head , after it ran into mines laid by U 80 . The Laurentic was on a voyage from Liverpool to Halifax and carried 35 tons of gold for the United States government . Around 350 people died in the sinking.
The British passenger ship Celtic was even bigger at over 20,000 GRT and also went to a mine laid by U 80 . In the mine hit, which occurred on February 15, 1917 south of the Isle of Man , the Celtic was only damaged.
On March 1, 1917, the British destroyer HMS Pheasant , a pure warship of the Royal Navy, fell victim to the mines of U 80 . The destroyer was hit by a mine west of the Orkney Islands and went down with the entire crew of 88 men.
Whereabouts
On January 16, 1919, U 80 was delivered to the United Kingdom as spoils of war . The boat was scrapped in the Welsh city of Swansea in 1922 .
Commanders
- Lieutenant Captain Alfred von Glasenapp - June 6, 1916 to July 31, 1917
- Kapitänleutnant Gustav Amberger - August 1, 1917 to October 30, 1917
- Lieutenant Karl Scherb - October 31, 1917 to December 22, 1917
- Lieutenant Karl Koopmann - December 23, 1917 to November 11, 1918
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 123.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 80 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 119.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Laurentic (engl.)
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Celtic (engl.)
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - HMS Pheasant (Engl.)
- ↑ 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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