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SM UB 77

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Name
  
UB-77

Yard number
  
306

Launched
  
5 May 1917

Builder
  
Blohm + Voss

Ordered
  
23 September 1916

Commissioned
  
2 October 1917

Draft
  
3.68 m

SM UB-77

Cost
  
3,338,000 German Papiermark

Fate
  
surrendered 16 January 1919.

SM UB-77 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 2 October 1917 as SM UB-77.

UB-77 was surrendered on 16 January 1919 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany and broken up in Swansea in 1921.

Construction

UB-77 was ordered by the GIN on 23 September 1916.

She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 5 May 1917. UB-77 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kptlt. Wilhelm Meyer. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-77 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-77 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,680 nautical miles (16,080 km; 9,990 mi). UB-77 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons) while surfaced and 648 t (638 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph) when surfaced and 7.8 knots (14.4 km/h; 9.0 mph) when submerged.

References

SM UB-77 Wikipedia