Name UB-144 Yard number 310 Draft 3.75 m Part of Imperial German Navy | Ordered 27 June 1917 Launched 5 October 1918 Builder AG Weser | |
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Cost 4,301,000 German Papiermark Fate Surrendered to Britain, broken up 1922. Class and type German Type UB III submarine | ||
SM UB-144 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat built for the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was never commissioned into the German Imperial Navy but surrendered to Britain on 27 March 1919 and broken up in Rochester in 1922.
Construction
She was built by Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft of Kiel and following just under a year of construction, launched at Kiel on 5 October 1918. UB-144 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-144 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). UB-144 had a displacement of 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.