Name UB-117 Yard number 323 Launched 21 November 1917 Builder Blohm + Voss | Ordered 6/8 February 1917 Commissioned 6 May 1918 Draft 3.7 m | |
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Cost 3,714,000 German Papiermark Fate Surrendered 26 November 1918, broken up in 1919/20. | ||
SM UB-117 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the Imperial German Navy during World War I. She was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy on 6 May 1918 as SM UB-117.
UB-117 was surrendered to the British on 26 November 1918 and broken up in Felixstowe in 1919/20.
Construction
She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 21 November 1917. UB-117 was commissioned in the spring the next year under the command of Kptlt. Erwin Waßner. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-117 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-117 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-117 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.