Key facts
- Name
- U-47
- Ordered
- 21 November 1936
- Builder
- Germaniawerft , Kiel
- Laid down
- 27 February 1937
- Launched
- 29 October 1938
- Commissioned
- 17 December 1938
- Fate
- Missing 7 March 1941, in the North Atlantic near the Rockall Bank and Trough .
- Class type
- Type VIIB U-boat
- Displacement
- 753 t (741 long tons ) surfaced 857 t (843 long tons) submerged
- Length
- 66.50 m (218 ft 2 in) o/a 48.80 m (160 ft 1 in) pressure hull
- Beam
- 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) o/a 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in) pressure hull
- Draught
- 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in)
- Installed power
- 2,800–3,200 PS (2,100–2,400 kW; 2,800–3,200 bhp) (diesels) 750 PS (550 kW; 740 shp) (electric)
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts 2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
- Speed
- 17.9 knots (33.2 km/h; 20.6 mph) surfaced 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
- Range
- 8,700 nmi (16,112 km; 10,012 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 90 nmi (170 km; 100 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged
- Test depth
- 230 m (750 ft) Calculated crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft)
- Complement
- 4 officers, 40–56 enlisted
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- U-boat
- Operator
- Kriegsmarine
- Manufacturer
- Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
- Image
- U-47.jpg
- Length
- 66.50
- Significant event
- missing in action
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- Commons category
- U-47 (submarine, 1938)
- draft
- 4.74
- vehicle range
- 8700
- location of creation
- Kiel
- yard number
- 583
- commanded by
- Günther Prien
- service entry
- 1938-12-17
- beam
- 6.20
- armament
- 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling
- vertical depth
- 230
- country of registry
- Nazi Germany
- different from
- SM UB-47
- crew members
- Günther Prien
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Encyclopedic overview
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien.
During U-47's career, she sank a total of 31 enemy vessels, including the British battleship HMS Royal Oak, and damaged nine more. U-47 was the thirteenth most successful U-boat of World War II based on tonnage of enemy shipping sunk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “U-47” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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