SM U 88
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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: | June 22, 1916 | |
| Commissioning: | April 7, 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 | ||
| Commander: | ||
| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 3 | |
| Successes: | 12 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk auxiliary cruiser |
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| Whereabouts: | lost on September 5, 1917 near Terschelling (presumably mine hit) | |
The SM U 88 was a diesel-electric fleet submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War . It is believed that U 88 fell victim to a British mine lock in September 1917 with the entire crew . His commander, Walther Schwieger , sank the Lusitania with U 20 on May 7, 1915, and thus severely burdened Germany's relationship with the USA .
Calls
U 88 ran on 22 June 1916, which Germaniawerft in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on April 7 1917th From May 1917 the submarine of the III. U- Flotilla assigned in Emden and Wilhelmshaven . The first and only commander of the submarine was Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger (July 23, 1916 to September 5, 1917).
U 88 introduced three during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. 13 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 39,583 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. These included ships of the Entente powers as well as ships under neutral flags.
On May 25, 1917, Schwieger and U 88 sank the British auxiliary cruiser Hilary (6,329 GRT) west of the Shetland Islands by a torpedo. 4 people were killed.
The largest ship sunk by U 88 was the Japanese passenger steamer Miyazaki Maru with 7,892 GRT. The Miyazaki Maru was torpedoed on May 31, 1917 on her voyage from Yokohama to London around 150 nautical miles west of the Isles of Scilly in the Atlantic .
Whereabouts
On September 5, 1917 was U 88 close behind U 54 of Helgoland west into the North Sea from. Both submarines used the yellow exit route through the German minefields. At the exit, about north of the island of Terschelling , however, they got into a British mine lock. U 54 touched the anchor chain of a mine, but did not trigger an explosion . When U 54 was approximately at position 54 ° 9 ' N , 4 ° 47' E , the crew heard two underwater explosions ten minutes apart. After that, U 88 did not answer again. Presumably the submarine ran into the British mines. All 43 crew members are missing.
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, 12 ships with a total of 39,382 GRT were sunk and two ships with a total of 845 GRT were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 88 (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Hilary (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Miyazaki Maru (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 34.
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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