SM U-48
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-48.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-48 |
| Ordered: | 4 August 1914 |
| Builder: | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig |
| Launched: | 3 October 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 22 April 1916 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 24 November 1917 after exchanging fire with British patrol craft - 19 dead and 17 survivors. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Type U-43 submarine |
| Displacement: | 725 tons surfaced 940 tons submerged 1,059 tons (total) |
| Length: | 65 m (213 ft) (oa 52.51 m (172.3 ft) (pressure hull) |
| Beam: | 6.2 m (20 ft) (oa) 4.18 m (13.7 ft) (pressure hull) |
| Height: | 8.7 m (29 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.74 m (12.3 ft) |
| Installed power: | 2400 hp surfaced 1200 hp submerged |
| Speed: | 17.1 kn (31.7 km/h; 19.7 mph) 9.1 kn (16.9 km/h; 10.5 mph) |
| Range: | •9,400 nmi (17,400 km; 10,800 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced •55 nmi (102 km; 63 mi) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Complement: | 36 |
| Armament: | •4 x 50 cm (19.7 in)[1] torpedo tubes (two bow, two stern; 6 torpedoes) •1 x 8.8 cm (3.5 in) deck gun with 276 rounds |
| Service record[2] | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
III Flotilla 8 Jun 1916 – 24 Nov 1917 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Berndt Buß 22 Apr 1916 - 9 Mar 1917 Oblt Hinrich Hermann Hashagen 10 Mar 1917 - 16 Mar 1917 Kptlt Karl Edeling 17 Mar 1917 - 24 Nov 1917 |
| Operations: | 8 patrols |
| Victories: |
34 merchant ships sunk (104,558 GRT) 1 merchant ship damaged (180 GRT) 2 merchant ships taken as prize (5,904 GRT) |
SM U-48 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-48 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
On 24 November 1917 she ran aground on Goodwin Sands. There she was fired on by HMS Gipsy. U-48 was scuttled and abandoned. HMS Gipsy continued to fire, killing 19. 17 were taken prisoner.[3]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1916 | Pendennis |  United Kingdom |
2,123 | Captured as a prize |
| 2 October 1916 | Lotusmere | United Kingdom |
3,911 | Sunk |
| 4 October 1916 | Brink |  Norway |
1,391 | Sunk |
| 6 October 1916 | Suchan |  Russian Empire |
3,781 | Captured as a prize |
| 6 October 1916 | Tuva |  Sweden |
2,270 | Sunk |
| 29 December 1916 | Tuskar | Russian Empire |
3,042 | Sunk |
| 6 January 1917 | Alphonse Conseil |  France |
1,591 | Sunk |
| 6 January 1917 | Ville Du Havre | France |
5,026 | Sunk |
| 7 January 1917 | Borgholm | Norway |
1,719 | Sunk |
| 7 January 1917 | Evangelos | .svg.png){kind=small} Greece |
3,773 | Sunk |
| 8 January 1917 | Tholma | Norway |
1,896 | Sunk |
| 12 January 1917 | Emeraude | France |
183 | Sunk |
| 12 January 1917 | Vestfold | Norway |
1,883 | Sunk |
| 14 January 1917 | Sydney | France |
2,695 | Sunk |
| 16 January 1917 | Esperanca | Norway |
4,428 | Sunk |
| 19 January 1917 | Nailsea Court | United Kingdom |
3,295 | Sunk |
| 3 March 1917 | Connaught | United Kingdom |
2,646 | Sunk |
| 4 March 1917 | Adelaide | United Kingdom |
180 | Damaged |
| 4 March 1917 | The Macbain | United Kingdom |
291 | Sunk |
| 7 March 1917 | Navarra | Norway |
1,261 | Sunk |
| 9 March 1917 | Abeja | United Kingdom |
174 | Sunk |
| 9 March 1917 | East Point | United Kingdom |
5,234 | Sunk |
| 12 March 1917 | Guerveur | France |
2,596 | Sunk |
| 12 May 1917 | San Onofre | United Kingdom |
9,717 | Sunk |
| 13 May 1917 | Jessmore | United Kingdom |
3,911 | Sunk |
| 15 May 1917 | Meuse | France |
4,075 | Sunk |
| 17 May 1917 | Margareta | Russian Empire |
1,873 | Sunk |
| 21 May 1917 | Lynton | Russian Empire |
2,531 | Sunk |
| 21 May 1917 | Madura | Norway |
1,096 | Sunk |
| 13 July 1917 | Gibel-Yedid | United Kingdom |
949 | Sunk |
| 14 July 1917 | Exford | United Kingdom |
5,886 | Sunk |
| 15 July 1917 | Torcello | United Kingdom |
2,929 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1917 | Asama | United Kingdom |
284 | Sunk |
| 31 August 1917 | Westbury | United Kingdom |
3,097 | Sunk |
| 7 September 1917 | Minnehaha | United Kingdom |
13,714 | Sunk |
| 9 September 1917 | Elsa |  Denmark |
1,236 | Sunk |
| 15 September 1917 | Rollesby | United Kingdom |
3,955 | Sunk |
References
- ↑ Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. "U-Boats (1905-18)", in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare, "(Phoebus Publishing, 1978), Volume 23, p.2534.
- ↑ "The Type U 43 boat SM U-48 - German U-boats of WWI - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ Lecane, Philip (2005). Torpedoed. Periscope Publishing. p. 292. ISBN 1-904381-30-8.
- ↑ "SM U-48 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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