SM UB-104
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UB-148 at sea, a U-boat similar to UB-104.
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Name: | UB-104 |
Ordered: | 6/8 February 1917[1] |
Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
Cost: | 3,714,000 German Papiermark |
Yard number: | 310 |
Launched: | 1 September 1917[2] |
Commissioned: | 15 March 1918[2] |
Fate: | sunk by mine on 19 September 1918[2] |
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Class & type: | German Type UB III submarine |
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Length: | 55.30 m (181 ft 5 in) (o/a) |
Beam: | 5.80 m (19 ft) |
Draught: | 3.70 m (12 ft 2 in) |
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Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement: | 3 officers, 31 men[2] |
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Operations: | 3 patrols |
Victories: | 11 merchant ships sunk (15,958 GRT) |
SM UB-104 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 15 March 1918 as SM UB-104.[Note 1]
UB-104 was sunk by mine in at the Northern Barrage on 19 September 1918.[2]
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Construction
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She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 1 September 1917. UB-104 was commissioned later the same year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Ernst Berlin. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-104 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-104 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 7,420 nautical miles (13,740 km; 8,540 mi). UB-104 had a displacement of 519 t (511 long tons) while surfaced and 649 t (639 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.3 knots (24.6 km/h; 15.3 mph) when surfaced and 7.4 knots (13.7 km/h; 8.5 mph) when submerged.
Summary of raiding history
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage[Note 2] | Fate[5] |
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2 August 1918 | Flevo X | Netherlands | 111 | Sunk |
2 August 1918 | Remke | Netherlands | 193 | Sunk |
3 August 1918 | Cambrai | France | 963 | Sunk |
13 August 1918 | Frida | Denmark | 395 | Sunk |
13 August 1918 | Jönköping 1 | Sweden | 1,546 | Sunk |
14 August 1918 | Wallsend | United Kingdom | 2,697 | Sunk |
14 September 1918 | Gibel Hamam | United Kingdom | 647 | Sunk |
15 September 1918 | Kendal Castle | United Kingdom | 3,885 | Sunk |
16 September 1918 | Ethel | United Kingdom | 2,336 | Sunk |
16 September 1918 | Lord Stewart | United Kingdom | 1,445 | Sunk |
17 September 1918 | Ursa | Sweden | 1,740 | Sunk |
References
Notes
- ↑ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
- ↑ Tonnages are in gross register tons
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