Heino von Heimburg
| Heino von Heimburg | |
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Oberleutnant z. See v. Heimburg with Pour le Mérite, 1917
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| Born |
24 October 1889 Hanover |
| Died | 1945 (aged 55–56) Russian SFSR |
| Allegiance |
 German Empire Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Kaiserliche Marine Kriegsmarine
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| Rank | Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) |
| Commands held |
UB-14, 25 March 1915 – 4 December 1915 UB-15, 4 June 1915 – 17 June 1915 UB-14, 6 February 1916 – 31 May 1916 UC-22, 1 July 1916 – 13 July 1917 UB-68, 5 October 1917 – 1 July 1918 U-35, 14 October 1918 – 11 November 1918 |
| Battles/wars | U-boat Campaign (World War I) |
| Awards |
Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern Pour le Mérite |
Heino von Heimburg (24 October 1889 – October 1945) was a German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I and served also as Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
On 10 June 1915, Heimburg, in command of UB-15 sank the Italian submarine Medusa off Porto di Piave Vecchia in the northern Adriatic. On 6 July 1915, Heimburg, in command of UB-14 with a crew of 14, torpedoed and sank the Italian armoured cruiser Amalfi while operating under the Austrian flag off Venice.
On 16 July, Heimburg sailed for the Dardanelles. This was at a time when the range of submarines was very limited, unlike today. To reach Bodrum, UB-14 had to be towed a considerable part of the distance by an Austrian destroyer. Even so, her engine broke down off Crete and her compass became defective. Despite these problems she arrived safely at Bodrum on 24 July. On arrival she recharged the batteries of the UC-14 which had arrived four days earlier with engine problems. A maintenance team then had to travel from Constantinople to carry out necessary repairs to both submarines. At the time this journey was not easy being made partly by train and partly by camel.
On 12 August, Heimburg sailed from Bodrum for the known steamer route between Alexandria and the Dardanelles. After leaving, Heimburg's first sighting was a fully lit hospital ship seen that evening which was not attacked. On 13 August he first sighted the liner Soudan in service as a hospital ship. He then sighted the RMS Royal Edward sailing unescorted for Madras. He fired one torpedo from under a mile away which hit her stern. Royal Edward sank quickly in position 36°13′N 25°51′E / 36.217°N 25.850°E 6 miles west from Kandeliusa in the Aegean Sea. The after deck was awash in three minutes and the ship had sunk with her bows in the air in six minutes. 132 members of her crew and maybe 1000 soldiers died, while figures vary.
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