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SM UB 145

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Name
  
UB-145

Yard number
  
311

Draft
  
3.85 m

Part of
  
Imperial German Navy

Ordered
  
27 June 1917

Launched
  
October 1918

Builder
  
AG Weser

SM UB-145

Cost
  
4,301,000 German Papiermark

Fate
  
Surrendered to Britain, broken up 1922.

Class and type
  
German Type UB III submarine

SM UB-145 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 AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Kiel in October 1918. UB-145 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-145 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-145 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.

References

SM UB-145 Wikipedia