| 词条 | Waldemar Kophamel |
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|name=Waldemar Kophamel |birth_date=August 16, 1880 |death_date={{death-date and age|November 4, 1934|August 16, 1880}} |birth_place=Graudenz |death_place=Plön |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance=German Empire |serviceyears=1898 – 1920 |rank=Fregattenkapitän |branch=Kaiserliche Marine |commands={{SMU|U-35|Germany|2}}, Nov 3, 1914 – November 12, 1915 {{SMU|U-151||2}}, July 21, 1917 – December 26, 1918 {{SMU|U-140||2}}, Mar 28, 1918 – November 11, 1918 |unit= |battles=U-boat Campaign (World War I) |awards=Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern Order of the Red Eagle 4th class Pour le Mérite |relations= |laterwork= }} Waldemar Kophamel (August 16, 1880 – November 4, 1934) was a highly decorated German U-boat commanding officer in the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Kophamel joined the Imperial German Navy on 12 April 1898 and started his military education on a ship named {{SMS|Stosch}}. At the start of the First World War Kophamel was a Kapitänleutnant and commanded {{SMU|U-35|Germany|2}}. In October 1915 he was promoted to Korvettenkapitän and in December of that year took command of the Pola Flotilla. In July 1917 he returned to sea, in command of U-151 and later {{SMU|U-140||2}}. During the war he succeeded sank 55 ships of a total tonnage of {{GRT|157,473|disp=long}}, including a large American tanker O. B. Jennings of {{GRT|10,289|disp=long}} and a former merchant ship taken up by the Royal Navy as HMS Tara of {{GRT|1,862|disp=long}}. He damaged four ships totaling {{GRT|8,701|disp=long}}, and two warships including {{HMS|Parthian|1916|6}}.[1] One of his notable actions was sinking the US lightship LV-71 off the coast of the United States. The crew, as well as survivors from another of his victims, Merak (1910)">USS Merak, a freighter seized by the US and assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service,[2] escaped the lightship and rowed to shore.[3] Kophamel remained in service after the war, and from April 1919 until June 1920 he commanded the light cruiser SMS Strassburg. Kophamel was promoted to Fregattenkapitän on 31 August 1920, the day he left the service. He died in 1934.[1] Submarine tender Waldemar Kophamel was named in his honor in 1939 and served in the German Navy until sunk by the Royal Air Force on 18 December 1944. After the war it was raised by the USSR, renamed Kuban, and served with the Soviet Navy until 1978. Awards and decorations
References1. ^1 [https://uboat.net/wwi/men/commanders/150.html Waldemar Kophamel, Korvettenkapitän], uboat.net {{Subject bar2. ^[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/m/merak-i.html Merak I (Str)], DANFS 3. ^US surces differ on whether the U-boat opened fire before or after the crews escaped. Compare [https://monitor.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/lv-71.html LV-71 Diamond Shoals Lightship], with Diamond Shoal Lightship Station History. | portal1=Biography | portal2=Military of Germany | portal3=Submarine | portal4=World War I }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kophamel, Waldemar}}{{germany-navy-bio-stub}} 9 : 1880 births|1934 deaths|People from Grudziądz|People from West Prussia|U-boat commanders (Imperial Navy)|German military personnel of World War I|Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)|Knights of the House Order of Hohenzollern|Recipients of the Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin), 1st class |
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