Name UA Yard number 202 Commissioned 14 August 1914 Launched 9 May 1914 Draft 2.8 m | Cost 1,729,000 Goldmark Laid down October 1912 Construction started October 1912 Length 47 m Beam 4.78 m | |
Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | ||
SM UA was a U-boat of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Built as the fifth submarine of the Norwegian A class the boat was launched 9 May 1914 and confiscated by the German government after the outbreak of World War I on 5 August 1914. Commissioned as SM U 0 on 14 August 1914 the boat was renamed UA two weeks later and assigned to coastal protection. In 1916 UA was transferred to the Uschule (Submarine School).
After the Armistice with Germany in November 1918 UA was surrendered at Harwich. It was then sold for scrap and was lost on tow off Folkestone. The wreck was identified by archaeologist Innes McCartney in 2013.
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