SM UB-62
![]() UB-148 at sea, a U-boat similar to UB-62. | |
Career (German Empire) | ![]() |
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Name: | UB-62 |
Ordered: | 20 May 1916[1] |
Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
Cost: | 3,279,000 German Papiermark[2] |
Yard number: | 87[2] |
Launched: | 11 May 1917[3] |
Commissioned: | 9 July 1917[3] |
Fate: | surrendered 21 November 1918, broken up in Swansea in 1921[3] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | German Type UB III submarine |
Type: | Coastal submarine |
Displacement: | 508 t (500 long tons; 560 short tons) surfaced 639 t (629 long tons; 704 short tons) submerged[2] |
Length: | 55.52 m (182.2 ft) o/a[2] |
Beam: | 5.76 m (18.9 ft)[2] |
Draught: | 3.70 m (12.1 ft)[2] |
Propulsion: | 2 shafts 6-cylinder MAN diesel engines,[3] 1,100 ihp (820 kW) Siemens-Schuckert[3] electric motors, 788 ihp (588 kW)[2] |
Speed: | 13.3 knots (24.6 km/h; 15.3 mph) surfaced 7.8 knots (14.4 km/h; 9.0 mph) submerged[2] |
Range: | 8,420 nmi (15,590 km; 9,690 mi) at 6 kn (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) surfaced 55 nmi (102 km; 63 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged[2] |
Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft)[3] |
Complement: | 3 officers, 31 men[3] |
Armament: | • 5 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern) with 10 torpedoes • 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun[3] |
Service record | |
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Part of: |
Imperial German Navy: V Flotilla 24 Aug 1917 - 20 Apr 1918 II Flotilla 9 Jul 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 |
Commanders: |
Kptlt Bernhard Putzier[4] 9 Jul 1917 - 8 Jul 1918 Oblt Günther Sperling[5] 20 Apr 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 |
Operations: | 7 patrols |
Victories: |
8 merchant ships sunk (17,226 gross register tons (GRT)) 1 merchant ship damaged (7,300 gross register tons (GRT)) |
SM UB-62 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 9 July 1917 as SM UB-62.[nb 1]
UB-62 was surrendered 21 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany and broken up in Swansea in 1921.[3]
Construction
UB-62 was ordered by the GIN on 20 May 1916.
She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg[2] and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 11 May 1917. UB-62 was commissioned later that same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-62 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-62 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,420 nautical miles (15,590 km).[2] UB-62 had a displacement of 508 t (500 long tons; 560 short tons) while surfaced and 639 t (629 long tons; 704 short tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.3 knots (24.6 km/h; 15.3 mph) when surfaced and 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) when submerged.[2]
Summary of Raiding Career
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[6] |
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6 September 1917 | Hammar II | ![]() |
206 | Sunk |
17 September 1917 | Australia | ![]() |
3,592 | Sunk |
17 September 1917 | Queen Amelia | ![]() |
4,278 | Sunk |
18 September 1917 | Joseph Chamberlain | ![]() |
3,709 | Sunk |
6 November 1917 | Benor | ![]() |
394 | Sunk |
14 January 1918 | Alster | ![]() |
964 | Sunk |
12 March 1918 | Oswin | ![]() |
1,743 | Sunk |
19 March 1918 | Burnstone | ![]() |
2,340 | Sunk |
25 July 1918 | Indore | ![]() |
7,300 | Damaged |
Notes
- Footnotes
- ↑ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
- Citations
- ↑ Rössler 1979, p. 60.
- ↑ 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 Gröner 1985, p. 52.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Gröner 1985, p. 53.
- ↑ "Bernhard Putzier". uboat.net. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ↑ "Günther Sperling". uboat.net. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ↑ "SM UB-62 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
References
- Gröner, Erich (1985). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher. Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 (in German) III (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4.
- Bendert, Harald (2000). Die UB-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine, 1914-1918. Einsätze, Erfolge, Schicksal (in German). 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 (in German) I (Munich: Bernard & Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-5213-7.