SM U 94
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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 93 - U 95 | |
| Builder: | Germania shipyard, Kiel | |
| Build number: | 258 | |
| Launch: | January 5, 1917 | |
| Commissioning: | March 3, 1917 | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 838 tons (above water) 1000 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 71.55 m | |
| Width: | 6.30 m | |
| Draft: | 3.94 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 4.15 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 45-66 s | |
| Drive: | Diesel engines 2400 PS E-machines 1200 PS |
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| Speed: | 16.8 knots (above water) 8.6 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 4 × 50 cm bow torpedo tube 2 × 50 cm stern torpedo tube (12–16 torpedoes) 1 × 10.5 cm deck gun (from 1918) 1 × 8.8 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: | 9 | |
| Successes: | 19 sunk merchant ships 1 sunk warship |
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| Whereabouts: | extradited to Great Britain on November 20, 1918; Wrecked in Bo'ness in 1919/20 | |
SM U 94 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy that was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 94 was launched on January 5, 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 3 March 1917th From April 1917 the boat was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum .
U 94 led nine during World War enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic through. 19 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 60,260 gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. In addition, a warship of 1,250 GRT was sunk. In addition to civilian ships of the war opponents, ships flying the flags of neutral countries were also attacked.
The largest ship sunk by U 94 was the British cargo ship Hurunui with 10,644 GRT. The Hurunui was torpedoed on May 18, 1918 on her voyage from Wellington to London about 48 miles southwest of Cape Lizard . One person was killed.
The British troop transport Haverford , which was attacked west of Scotland on June 26, 1917, was slightly larger . Eight crew members died. The ship, measured at 11,635 GRT, was able to be put on the ground and was made seaworthy again.
On June 20, 1917, U 94 sank the British sloop HMS Salvia (1,250 GRT) west of Ireland, which was operating as a submarine trap . The Salvia commander has been captured. Five people were killed.
Whereabouts
U 94 survived the war. On November 20, 1918, the boat was delivered to the United Kingdom . The scrapping took place in the years 1919 to 1920 in the Scottish Bo'ness .
Commanders
- Lieutenant Alfred Saalwächter : March 3, 1917 to March 24, 1918
- Oberleutnant zur See Martin Schwab : March 25, 1917 to November 11, 1918
Notes and individual references
- ↑ 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, 21 ships with a total tonnage of 61,881 tons were sunk and three ships with a total of 19,326 tons were damaged.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 94 (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 119.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Hurunui (Engl.)
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Haverford (Engl.)
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 120.
- ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Salvia (Engl.)
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
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