Name U-140 Yard number 301 Launched 4 November 1917 | Ordered 1 August 1916 Commissioned 28 March 1918 Draft 11 m | |
In service 28 March 1918 – 11 November 1918 Fate Surrendered 23 February 1919Sunk as target 22 July 1921 Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | ||
SM U-140 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-140 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
After the end of World War I, U-140 surrendered to the United States, which used her for testing. Finally, the United States Navy destroyer USS Dickerson (DD-157) sank her as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Charles, Virginia, on 22 July 1921.
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