Name UB-143 Yard number 309 Commissioned 3 October 1918 | Ordered 27 June 1917 Launched 21 August 1918 Draft 3.75 m | |
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Cost 4,301,000 German Papiermark | ||
SM UB-143 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 3 October 1918 as SM UB-143.
She was surrendered to Japan on 1 December 1918 and served in the Imperial Japanese Navy until 1921, when she was broken up in Yokohama.
Construction
Built by AG Weser of Bremen in one year of construction, UB-143 was launched at Bremen on 21 August 1918, carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-143 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 7,280 nautical miles (13,480 km; 8,380 mi). Displacement was 523 t (515 long tons) while surfaced and 653 t (643 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) when surfaced and 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) when submerged.