SM U-87
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-87.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-87 |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1915 |
| Builder: | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
| Yard number: | Werk 31 |
| Laid down: | 28 October 1915 |
| Launched: | 22 May 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 26 February 1917 |
| Fate: | 25 December 1917 - Rammed by HMS Buttercup and depth charged to be finally sunk by PC56 in Irish Sea. 44 fatalities (all hands lost).[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type U 87 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 [2] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Imperial German Navy III Flotilla 24 Apr 1917 - 25 Dec 1917 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Rudolf Schneider[3] 26 Feb 1917 - 13 Oct 1917 Kptlt Freiherr Rudolf von Speth-Schülzburg[4] 13 Oct 1917 - 25 Dec 1917 |
| Operations: | 5 patrols |
| Victories: |
23 merchant ships sunk (59,884 GRT 2 merchant ships damaged (7,638 GRT)[1] |
SM U-87 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in World War I. U-87 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.[5]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 1917 | Bernisse |  Netherlands |
951 | Damaged |
| 23 May 1917 | Elve | Netherlands |
962 | Sunk |
| 26 May 1917 | Lucipara |  Russian Empire |
1,943 | Sunk |
| 26 May 1917 | Saint Mirren |  United Kingdom |
1,956 | Sunk |
| 30 May 1917 | Bathurst | United Kingdom |
2,821 | Sunk |
| 30 May 1917 | Hanley | United Kingdom |
3,331 | Sunk |
| 2 June 1917 | Eliofilo | _crowned.svg.png){kind=small} Kingdom of Italy |
3,583 | Sunk |
| 2 June 1917 | Mississippi |  France |
6,687 | Damaged |
| 4 July 1917 | Loch Katrine | United Kingdom |
151 | Sunk |
| 8 July 1917 | Valetta | United Kingdom |
5,871 | Sunk |
| 10 July 1917 | Seang Choon | United Kingdom |
5,807 | Sunk |
| 11 July 1917 | Kioto | United Kingdom |
6,182 | Sunk |
| 12 July 1917 | Castleton | United Kingdom |
2,395 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1917 | Tamele | United Kingdom |
3,932 | Sunk |
| 19 July 1917 | Artensis |  Norway |
1,788 | Sunk |
| 21 July 1917 | Coniston Water | United Kingdom |
3,738 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1917 | Eika II | Norway |
1,268 | Sunk |
| 21 August 1917 | Oslo | United Kingdom |
2,296 | Sunk |
| 22 August 1917 | Alexander Shukoff |  Denmark |
1,652 | Sunk |
| 27 August 1917 | Anna | Denmark |
1,211 | Sunk |
| 27 August 1917 | Aurora | Denmark |
768 | Sunk |
| 13 December 1917 | Little Gem | United Kingdom |
114 | Sunk |
| 24 December 1917 | Daybreak | United Kingdom |
3,238 | Sunk |
| 25 December 1917 | Agberi | United Kingdom |
4,821 | Sunk |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Uboat.net U87
- ↑ Uboat.net type 81
- ↑ "Rudolf Schneider (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ "Freiherr Rudolf von Speth-Schülzburg". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ "U-87". Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ↑ "SM U-87 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 21 January 2015.