SM U 90
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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: | January 12, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | August 2, 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 × 10.5 cm deck gun |
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| Crew (target strength): | 4 officers 32 men |
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| Calls: | 7th | |
| Successes: | 27 sunk merchant ships 1 radio station destroyed |
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| Whereabouts: | Delivered to Great Britain on November 20, 1918 and scrapped in Bo'ness in 1919/20 | |
The SM U 90 was a diesel-electric fleet submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 90 was launched on 12 January 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on August 2 1917th From September 1917 the submarine of the III. U- Flotilla assigned in Emden and Wilhelmshaven . The commanders of the submarine were Kapitänleutnant Walter Remy (August 2, 1917 to July 31, 1918), Lieutenant Helmut Patzig (August 1, 1918 to August 31, 1918) and Lieutenant Heinrich Jeß (September 1, 1918 to November 11, 1918) ).
U 90 led seven during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic through. 27 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 71,337 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. Ships flying the flags of the neutral countries Denmark , Norway and Spain were also sunk.
The largest ship sunk by U 90 was the US troop transport President Lincoln with over 18,000 GRT. Before the war she sailed as a German passenger ship for HAPAG . The President Lincoln was hit by three torpedoes from U 90 on December 31, 1917 on her voyage from Brest to the United States . In the ensuing sinking, 26 people were killed. Lieutenant Edouard Izac was captured by the Germans and later passed on his observations on board the submarine to the US Navy .
On May 15, 1918, U 90 destroyed the radio station on the Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda with its deck gun .
Whereabouts
U 90 survived the First World War without being sunk itself. Together with numerous other submarines, she was delivered from Germany to the United Kingdom in November 1918 . Since Great Britain had no further use for the submarine, it was scrapped in the post-war years of 1919 and 1920 in Bo'ness, Scotland .
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, 30 ships with a total of 74,175 tons were sunk and two ships with 8,594 tons were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 90 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 119.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - President Lincoln (engl.)
- ↑ Marine News Bulletin: U 90 and the bombardment of St. Kilda (online overview)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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