SM U-82
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | SM U-82 |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1915 |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Yard number: | 252 |
| Laid down: | 31 August 1915 |
| Launched: | 1 July 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 16 September 1916 |
| Fate: | 16 January 1919 - Surrendered. Broken up at Blyth in 1919-20. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type U 81 submarine |
| Displacement: | 808 tons surfaced 946 tons submerged 1160 tons (total) |
| Length: | 70.06 m (overall) 55.55 m (pressure hull) |
| Beam: | 6.30 m (overall) 4.15 m (pressure hull) |
| Draught: | 4.02 m |
| Propulsion: | 2400 hp surfaced 1200 hp submerged |
| Speed: | 16.8 knots surfaced 9.1 knots submerged |
| Range: | 11,220 miles at 8 knots surfaced 56 miles at 5 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 39 men |
| Armament: | 12 torpedoes (4/2 in bow/stern tubes) 105mm deck gun with 140 rounds [1] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Imperial German Navy: IV Flotilla 21 Nov 1916 - 11 Nov 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Hans Adam[2] Kptlt Heinrich Middendorf[3] 30 Apr 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 |
| Operations: | 11 patrols |
| Victories: |
36 merchant ships sunk (110,160 gross register tons (GRT)) 3 merchant ships damaged (32,914 GRT) |
SM U-82 was a Type U 81 U-boat of the Imperial German Navy during World War I.
She was launched on 1 July 1916 and commissioned on 16 September 1916 under Hans Adam. She was assigned to IV Flotilla on 21 November 1916, serving with them throughout the war. She carried out 11 patrols during the war, commanded from 30 Apr 1918 by Heinrich Middendorff. SM U-82 sank 36 ships for a total of 110,160 tons, and damaging a further three ships for 32,914 tons. Among the ships she damaged was the USS Mount Vernon, the former SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie. At 18,372 tons she was one of the largest ships to be hit by a U-boat during the war.[4]
She was surrendered to the British on 16 January 1919 under the terms of the armistice, and was broken up at Blyth between 1919 and 1920.
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[5] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 1916 | Dorit |  Denmark |
242 | Sunk |
| 5 December 1916 | Ella |  Norway |
879 | Sunk |
| 6 December 1916 | Christine | Denmark |
196 | Sunk |
| 6 December 1916 | Robert | Denmark |
353 | Sunk |
| 10 December 1916 | Gerda | Denmark |
287 | Sunk |
| 2 January 1917 | Omnium |  France |
8,719 | Sunk |
| 3 January 1917 | Viking | Denmark |
761 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1917 | Calabro | _crowned.svg.png){kind=small} Kingdom of Italy |
1,925 | Sunk |
| 5 January 1917 | Ebro | Denmark |
1,028 | Sunk |
| 6 January 1917 | Beaufront |  United Kingdom |
1,720 | Sunk |
| 23 April 1917 | Marita | Norway |
1,759 | Sunk |
| 24 April 1917 | Thistleard | United Kingdom |
4,136 | Sunk |
| 25 April 1917 | Hackensack | United Kingdom |
4,060 | Sunk |
| 4 May 1917 | Ellin | .svg.png){kind=small} Greece |
4,577 | Damaged |
| 11 June 1917 | Zylpha | United Kingdom |
2,917 | Sunk |
| 13 June 1917 | Storegut | Norway |
2,557 | Sunk |
| 14 June 1917 | Highbury | United Kingdom |
4,831 | Sunk |
| 14 June 1917 | Ortolan | United Kingdom |
1,727 | Sunk |
| 15 June 1917 | Albertine Beatrice |  Netherlands |
1,379 | Sunk |
| 15 June 1917 | Westonby | United Kingdom |
3,795 | Sunk |
| 16 June 1917 | Jessie | United Kingdom |
2,256 | Sunk |
| 18 June 1917 | Thistledhu | United Kingdom |
4,026 | Sunk |
| 25 July 1917 | Monkstone | United Kingdom |
3,097 | Sunk |
| 31 July 1917 | Orubian | United Kingdom |
3,876 | Sunk |
| 31 July 1917 | Quernmore | United Kingdom |
7,302 | Sunk |
| 19 September 1917 | Saint Ronald | United Kingdom |
4,387 | Sunk |
| 15 November 1917 | De Dollart | Netherlands |
243 | Sunk |
| 19 February 1918 | Glencarron | United Kingdom |
5,117 | Sunk |
| 19 February 1918 | Philadelphian | United Kingdom |
5,165 | Sunk |
| 8 April 1918 | Tainui | United Kingdom |
9,965 | Damaged |
| 10 April 1918 | Westfield | United Kingdom |
3,453 | Sunk |
| 5 June 1918 | Argonaut |  United States |
4,826 | Sunk |
| 7 June 1918 | Brisk | Norway |
1,662 | Sunk |
| 8 June 1918 | Hunsgrove | United Kingdom |
3,063 | Sunk |
| 8 June 1918 | Saima | United Kingdom |
1,147 | Sunk |
| 4 September 1918 | Dora | United States |
7,037 | Sunk |
| 5 September 1918 | USS Mount Vernon | United States Navy |
18,372 | Damaged |
| 12 September 1918 | Galway Castle | United Kingdom |
7,988 | Sunk |
| 16 September 1918 | Madryn | United Kingdom |
2,244 | Sunk |
References
- ↑ Uboat.net type 81
- ↑ "Hans Adam (Pour le Mérite)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ↑ "Heinrich Middendorf". Uboat.net. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ↑ "U-82". Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ↑ "SM U-82 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 24 December 2014.