SM UB-19

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SM UB-45 a u-boat similar to UB-19
Career (German Empire)
Name: UB-19
Ordered: 30 April 1915[1]
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[1]
Yard number: 249[1]
Launched: 2 September 1915[1]
Commissioned: 16 December 1915[1]
Fate: sunk by British Q ship, 30 November 1916[2]
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type UB II submarine
Displacement: 263 t (259 long tons) surfaced[2]
292 t (287 long tons) submerged[2]
Length: 36.13 m (118 ft 6 in)[2]
Beam: 436 m (1,430 ft 5 in)[2]
Draft: 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)[2]
Propulsion: 2 × propeller shafts
2 × Daimler diesel engines, 284 shp (212 kW)[2]
2 ×Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 280 shp (210 kW)[2]
Speed: 9.15 knots (16.95 km/h) surfaced[2]
5.81 knots (10.76 km/h) submerged[2]
Range: 6,650 nautical miles (12,320 km; 7,650 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) surfaced[2]
45 nmi (83 km; 52 mi) at 4 knots submerged[2]
Test depth: 50 m (160 ft)[2]
Complement: 2 officers, 21 men[2]
Armament: 2 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes[2]
4 × torpedoes (later 6)
1 × 5 cm SK L/40 gun[2]
Notes: 45-second diving time[2]

SM UB-19 was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 30 April 1915 and launched on 2 September 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 16 December 1915 as SM UB-19.[Note 1] The submarine sank 14 ships in 15 patrols for a totel of 11,558 gross register tons (GRT). UB-19 was sunk in the English Channel at 49°56′N 2°45′W / 49.933°N 2.750°W / 49.933; -2.750Coordinates: 49°56′N 2°45′W / 49.933°N 2.750°W / 49.933; -2.750 on 30 November 1916 by British Q ship HMS Penshurst (Q 7).[2]

Notes

  1. "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Rössler 1979, p. 64.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 Gröner 1985, p. 50.

Bibliography

  • Gröner, Erich (1985). "U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher". Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 III (Koblenz: Bernhard&Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4. 
  • Bendert, Harald (2000). Die UB-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine, 1914-1918. Einsätze, Erfolge, Schicksal. Hamburg: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH. ISBN 3-8132-0713-7. 
  • Rössler, Eberhard (1979). "U-Bootbau bis Ende des 1. Weltkrieges, Konstruktionen für das Ausland und die Jahre 1935 - 1945". Die deutschen U-Boote und ihre Werften I (Munich: Bernhard&Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-5213-7. 



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