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Name
  
UB-64

Yard number
  
89

Launched
  
9 June 1917

Ordered
  
20 May 1916

Commissioned
  
5 August 1917

Draft
  
3.7 m

SM UB-64

Cost
  
3,279,000 German Papiermark

Fate
  
surrendered to the British 21 November 1918 and broken up in Fareham in 1921

Builders
  
AG Vulcan Stettin, Hamburg

SM UB-64 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 5 August 1917 as SM UB-64.

UB-64 was surrendered to the British on 21 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany and broken up in Fareham in 1921.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 9 June 1917. UB-64 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kptlt. Otto von Schrader.

Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-64 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-64 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,420 nautical miles (15,590 km; 9,690 mi). UB-64 had a displacement of 508 t (500 long tons) while surfaced and 639 t (629 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.3 knots (24.6 km/h; 15.3 mph) when surfaced and 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) when submerged.

References

SM UB-64 Wikipedia