SM U 85
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| Construction data | ||
| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean- going boat official draft from MS -type war mission F |
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| Series: | U 81 - U 86 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 255 | |
| Launch: | August 22, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | October 23, 1916 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 808 tons (above water) 946 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 70.06 m | |
| Width: | 6.30 m | |
| Draft: | 4.02 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.15 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-50 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.8 knots (above water) 9.1 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 4 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (12-16 torpedoes) 1 or 2 × 8.8 cm deck gun 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (1917/18) |
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| Mission data | ||
| Commander: | Willy Petz | |
| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 31 men |
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| Calls: | 3 | |
| Successes: | 5 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | At the bottom of the Irish Sea | |
SM U 85 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War . It was lost on or after March 7, 1917 for unknown reasons.
Calls
U 85 ran on 22 August 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 23 October 1916th From January 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV submarine flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The first and only in command was Lieutenant Captain Willy Petz .
U 85 introduced three during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. Five merchant ships with a total tonnage of 23,127 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. In addition to British ships, these included the cargo ship Dicax under the Norwegian or neutral flag.
The largest ship sunk by U 85 was the British passenger ship California (approx. 8,660 GRT). The California was torpedoed southwest of Ireland on February 7, 1917 . The ship was on a voyage from New York to Glasgow . More than 40 people died in the sinking.
Whereabouts
On March 7, 1917 U 85 ran out on its third patrol into the North Sea. After that his track is lost. All 38 crew members are missing.
For a long time it was assumed that U 85 had been sunk in the English Channel by artillery from the British submarine trap Privet on March 12, 1917 . However, this attack was aimed at the German mining submarine UC 68 , which was not sunk.
Others
U 85 , like its sister boats, was very seaworthy. The series became the model for the submarine class IX and foreign designs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.bbc.com
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de October 20, 2016
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 139.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 123.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 68.
- ↑ According to uboat.net, U 85 sank four ships with a total of 20,225 GRT.
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Dicax (Engl.)
- ↑ uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - California (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 90.
- ↑ uboat.net WWI U-boats - U 85
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 25.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 50.
literature
- Bodo Herzog : German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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