SM U 95

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SM U 95
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German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge)
Construction data
Submarine type: Two-hull ocean-
going boat official draft from MS -type
war mission F
Series: U 93 - U 95
Builder: Germania shipyard, Kiel
Build number: 259
Launch: January 20, 1917
Commissioning: April 19, 1917
Technical specifications
Displacement: 838 tons (above water)
1000 tons (under water)
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
Speed: 16.8 knots (above water)
8.6 knots (under water)
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
Mission data
Commanders:
  • Athalwin Prince
Crew (target strength): 4 officers
32 men
Calls: 6th
Successes: 14 sunk merchant ships
Whereabouts: sank off the French Channel coast in January 1918 for unknown reasons

SM U 95 was a diesel-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which in the First World War was used.

Calls

U 95 was launched on 20 January 1917 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack and was put into service on 19 April 1917th After completion of the test and training trips, the boat was assigned to the IV. U- Flotilla in Emden and Borkum in May 1917 . The first and only in command was Lieutenant Captain Athalwin Prinz (April 15, 1917 to January 1918).

U 95 led six enterprises in the eastern North Atlantic to the British Isles by. 14 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 38,014  gross registered tonnes (GRT) were sunk. In addition to ships of the war opponents, ships flying the flags of neutral countries were also attacked.

The largest ship sunk by U 95 was the British cargo ship Polyxena with 5,737 GRT loaded with wheat . The Polyxena was sunk on June 12, 1917 on her voyage from Australia to Queenstown ( Ireland ) about 57 miles west of Fastnet . Seven people were killed.

Whereabouts

On December 27, 1917 left U 95 , the Ems - mouth to a patrol through the English Channel to go. The last radio contact took place on December 30, 1917, when U 95 was in the English Channel. Sinking of enemy ships on December 31, 1917 and January 2, 1918 suggest that U 95 was still in service at that time.

In August 2003, the wreck of a submarine was discovered off Hardelot near Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French Channel coast. Based on engravings on the propeller the boat could by divers as U 95 are identified. The circumstances of the downfall are unknown.

Until this wreck was identified, it had been assumed that U 95 had been sunk off Cape Lizard by a ram blow by the British freighter Braeneil . However, this body of water is at the other end of the English Channel and is therefore far from where the wreck was found.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 139.
  2. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 123.
  3. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 69.
  4. ↑ According to www.uboat.net, three ships with a total of 5,862 tons were also damaged.
  5. ↑ www.uboat.net: WWI U-boat Successes - Ships hit by U 95 (Engl.)
  6. ↑ www.uboat.net: Ships hit during WWI - Polyxena (Engl.)
  7. ↑ Dwight R. Messimer: Lost - World War I U-Boat Losses . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2002, ISBN 1-55750-475-X , p. 111.
  8. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, p. 91.
  9. ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Urbes, Graefelfing, 1998, p. 42.

literature

  • Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Karl Müller, Erlangen, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .

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