SM U-62

History
German Empire
Name:	U-62
Ordered:	6 October 1914
Builder:	AG Weser, Bremen ( 217)
Laid down:	22 June 1915
Launched:	2 August 1916
Commissioned:	30 December 1916
Fate:	22 November - Surrendered. Broken up at Bo'ness in 1919-20
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type U 57 submarine
Displacement:	768 t (756 long tons) surfaced 956 t (941 long tons) submerged
Length:	67.00 m (219 ft 10 in) (o/a) 54.02 m (177 ft 3 in) (pressure hull)
Beam:	6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) (oa) 4.05 m (13 ft 3 in) (pressure hull)
Height:	8.05 m (26 ft 5 in)
Draught:	3.79 m (12 ft 5 in)
Installed power:	2 × 2,400 PS (1,765 kW; 2,367 shp) surfaced 2 × 1,200 PS (883 kW; 1,184 shp) submerged
Propulsion:	2 shafts
Speed:	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) surfaced 8.4 knots (15.6 km/h; 9.7 mph) submerged
Range:	11,400 nmi (21,100 km; 13,100 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced 49 nmi (91 km; 56 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged
Test depth:	50 m (164 ft 1 in)
Complement:	36
Armament:	4 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (two bow, two stern) 7 torpedoes 1 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK L/45 deck gun
Service record
Part of:	Imperial German Navy II Flotilla 15 February 1917 – 11 November 1918
Commanders:	Kptlt. Ernst Hashagen 30 December 1916 – 24 December 1917, 10 March – 11 November 1918 Kptlt. Otto Wiebalck 25 December 1917 – 9 March 1918
Operations:	9 patrols
Victories:	47 merchant ships sunk (123,294 GRT) 5 merchant ships damaged (16,483 GRT) 1 warship sunk (9,517 tons)

SM U-62 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-62 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.

On 8 March 1917, SM U-62 sank the coal freighter Storstad, the ship that had rammed and sunk the RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.

On 7 August 1918, she torpedoed the French armoured cruiser Dupetit-Thouars, which sank with the loss of 13 of her crew.

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