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SM UB 150

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Name
  
UB-150

Yard number
  
316

Launched
  
19 October 1918

Builder
  
AG Weser

Ordered
  
27 June 1917

Commissioned
  
27 March 1919

Draft
  
3.75 m

Part of
  
Imperial German Navy

SM UB-150

Cost
  
4,301,000 German Papiermark

Fate
  
Surrendered, broken up.

SM UB-150 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 commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 27 March 1919 as UB-150 . UB-150 was surrendered to Britain in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany and broken up at Rochester in 1922.

Construction

She was built by AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 19 October 1918. UB-150 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-150 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-150 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-150 Wikipedia