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SUBMARINES

U27 submarines (1917)

U27 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
U27   82 CNT, Monfalcone 5/1916 19.10.1916 2/1917 to Italy 1920
U28   83 CNT, Monfalcone 6/1916 8.1.1917 5/1917 to Italy 1920
U29   69 Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi 3/1916 21.10.1916 1/1917 to Italy 1920
U30   70 Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi 3/1916 27.12.1916 2/1917 lost 1-2.4.1917
U31   71 Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi 7/1916 20.3.1917 4/1917 to France 1920
U32   72 Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi 7/1916 11.5.1917 6/1917 to Italy 1920
U40   84 CNT, Monfalcone 8/1916 21.4.1917 8/1917 to Italy 1920

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

278 / 312

Length, m

37.7 wl 36.9 pp

Breadth, m

4.37

Draught, m

3.67

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Körting diesels / 2 SSW electric motors

Power, h. p.

300 / 280

Max speed, kts

9 / 5.7

Fuel, t

diesel oil 27

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(5) / 45(4)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/27 G. L/30 K.16 BAG, 2 - 450 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

19

Diving depth operational, m

50

Project history: Modified Austrian license-built variant of the German UB II type. Ordered on 12 October 1915, they were built at the Pola N Yd, except U29-32 which were built by Danubius, Fiume.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All saw active service in the latter part of the war; U30 was lost by unknown cause in the Otranto Straits 1-2.4.1917; U31 was allocated to France in 1920 and scrapped, while all the others were allocated to Italy; U27 was scrapped at Fiume, and all the others at Venice.

U27 1918

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014