SM U 87
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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 87 - U 92 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Launch: | May 22, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | February 26, 1917 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 757 tons (above water) 998 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 65.80 m | |
| Width: | 6.20 m | |
| Draft: | 3.88 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.18 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-56 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 15.6 knots (above water) 8.6 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (10–12 torpedoes) 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun |
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| Mission data | ||
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 5 | |
| Successes: | 21 sunk merchant ships | |
| Whereabouts: | in Ireland from British sloop on December 25, 1917 Buttercup and patrol boat PC 56 sunk | |
SM U 87 was a diesel-electric fleet submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 87 ran on 22 May 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 26 February 1917th From April 1917 the submarine of the III. U- Flotilla assigned in Emden and Wilhelmshaven . The commanders of the submarine were Kapitänleutnant Rudolf Schneider (26 February 1917 to 13 October 1917) and Kapitänleutnant Freiherr Rudolf von Speth-Schülzburg (13 October 1917 to 25 December 1917).
U 87 led five during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. 21 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 59,710 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. These included ships of the Entente powers as well as ships under neutral flags.
The largest ship sunk by U 87 was the British cargo ship Kioto with 6,182 GRT. The Kioto was torpedoed on July 11, 1917 on its voyage from New York to Manchester southwest by Fastnet .
The French ship Mississippi was even larger at 6,687 GRT, but was only damaged on June 2, 1917 west of Brest .
The first commander of the submarine, Rudolf Schneider, drowned on a patrol by U 87 when he was torn overboard in stormy weather on October 13, 1917. Schneider was able to be recovered, but all attempts at resuscitation failed.
Whereabouts
On December 25, 1917, U 87 attacked an enemy convoy in the Irish Sea . The submarine was discovered by the British sloop Buttercup , who succeeded in ramming it. However, U 87 was able to dive seriously damaged. When the British patrol boat PC 56 reached the spot shortly afterwards, it dropped two depth charges . The detonations lifted the submarine back to the surface. It was shot at by PC 56 and rammed again. The submarine broke apart, with the bow section floating on the surface of the water for about ten minutes, so that the crews of the British ships could see inside the submarine. U 87 fell approximately at the following position 52 ° 56 ' N , 5 ° 7' W . All 44 crew members were killed in the sinking.
See also
- Artensis , Norwegian sailing ship sunk by U 87
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, 22 ships with a total of 59.828 GRT were sunk and two ships with 7,638 GRT were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 87 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Kioto (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Mississippi (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat commanders - Rudolf Schneider (Engl.)
- ↑ www.weltkriegsopfer.de: Schneider, Rudolf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, pp. 90f.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 41.
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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