Name UB-86 Yard number 286 Launched 10 October 1917 Builder AG Weser | Ordered 23 September 1916 Commissioned 10 November 1917 Draft 3.72 m | |
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Cost 3,341,000 German Papiermark Fate surrendered 24 November 1918, broken up at Falmouth | ||
SM UB-86 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 31 October 1917 as SM UB-86.
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UB-86 was surrendered to the British on 24 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. On her way to Falmouth, Cornwall, UB-86 and three other U-boats stranded and were broken up in Falmouth in 1921.
Construction
UB-85 was ordered on 23 September 1916.
She was built by AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 10 October 1917. UB-86 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kptlt. Hans Trenk. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-86 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-86 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,180 nautical miles (15,150 km; 9,410 mi). UB-86 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons) while surfaced and 647 t (637 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) when surfaced and 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) when submerged.
Service history
On 17 August 1918 UB-86 torpedoed the cargo steam ship Denebola 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) N by W from Gurnard Head near St Ives, Cornwall. Denebola, en route from Swansea bound for Rouen, was struck by two torpedoes which hit near number two and three holds causing her to sink rapidly. The crew took to a boat and a raft and were later picked up by a patrol vessel. The second engineer and one able seaman were lost.