SM U 86
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 SM U 86 at sea |
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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: | 256 | |
| Launch: | November 7, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | November 30, 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 | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 31 men |
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| Calls: | 10 | |
| Successes: | 32 sunk merchant ships 1 damaged auxiliary ship |
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| Whereabouts: | extradited to Great Britain on November 20, 1918; Sunk in 1921 on the way to the scrapping site in the English Channel | |
SM U 86 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War . The submarine is famous for the illegal sinking of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle .
Calls
U 86 was on November 7, 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 30 November 1916th From February 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV submarine flotilla in Emden and Borkum . The commanders of the submarine were Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Crüsemann (November 30, 1916 to June 22, 1917), Lieutenant Alfred Götze (June 23, 1917 to January 25, 1918) and First Lieutenant Helmut Patzig (January 26, 1918 to 11. November 1918).
U 86 led ten during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. 32 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 119,411 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. These included ships of the Entente powers as well as ships under neutral flags. On December 15, 1917, a French naval tug was damaged by gunfire south of Belle-Île .
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On June 27, 1918, Patzig sank west of Fastnet, the British Llandovery Castle , which was illuminated and marked as a hospital ship. He had the castaways shot to clear all witnesses to the incident. Only 24 people survived the sinking and the subsequent bombardment. Despite being one of the worst war crimes of World War I, Patzig was never convicted. Two officers on watch from U 86 were sentenced to prison terms, but released early.
The largest ship sunk by U 86 was the US Covington with 16,339 GRT, which previously operated as the Cincinnati passenger ship for the Hamburg-America line . It was torpedoed just a few days after Llandovery Castle on July 1, 1918 on its voyage from France to the United States . Six people were killed in the attack.
Whereabouts
With the end of the First World War, U 86 was extradited to the United Kingdom on November 20, 1918 . From September 1919 to March 1920, the boat was in service with the British Navy as HMS U-86 . It was to be scrapped in 1921. However, U 86 sank on the last ferry crossing in the English Channel .
Others
Like its sister boats, U 86 was extremely seaworthy. The series became the model for the submarine class IX and foreign designs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 www.uboat.net, 33 ships with a total of 117,583 GRT were sunk.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 86 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Baron Leopold Davillier (Engl.)
- ↑ a b Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 119.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: ships hit during WWI - Llandovery Castle (Engl.)
- ↑ Gerd Hankel: War crimes and the possibilities of their punishment in the past and present , Historisches Centrum Hagen
- ↑ Harald Wiggenhorn: A debt almost without atonement , from: Die Zeit , article from August 16, 1996.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - USS Covington (Engl.)
- ↑ Deutsches U-Boot-Museum: Overviews of submarines of the Imperial Navy ( 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.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 90.
- ↑ 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 .
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