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UB oceangoing submarine minelayer (1939/1940)

UB1 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UB (ex-Seal)     Chatham DYd, United Kingdom 12.1936 27.9.1938 1.1939 // 11.1940 stricken 7.1941

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1810 / 2157

Length, m

89.3

Breadth, m

7.77

Draught, m

5.13

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Admiralty diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

3300 / 1630

Max speed, kts

15.8 / 8.8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 120

Endurance, nm(kts) 6500(10) / 64(4)

Armament

6 - 533 TT (bow, 12), 50 mines

Electronic equipment type 129 sonar
Complement

59

Diving depth operational, m 60

Project history: Ex-British submarine Seal of Porpoise class, captured 5.5.1940 by Ar 196 from 1.B.Fl.Gr. 196 in Kattegat being damaged by a mine. 23.7.1940 she was renamed UB and commissioned 30.11.1940 by Kriegsmarine.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: UB was stricken 31.7.1941, wreck was scuttled 3.5.1945 at Kiel.

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