SM UB-115

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UB-148 at sea, a U-boat similar to UB-115.
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SM UB-115 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (Template:Langx) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 May 1918 as SM UB-115.[Note 1] She was the only German submarine commissioned with the number 115.

UB-115 was sunk by British warships, including Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and the rigid airship R29 at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". using depth charges and aerial bombs.Template:Sfn

Construction

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 4 November 1917. UB-115 was commissioned in the spring the next year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Reinhold Thomsen. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-115 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a Script error: No such module "convert". deck gun. UB-115 would carry a crew of up to 3 officers and 31 men and had a cruising range of Script error: No such module "convert".. UB-115 had a displacement of Script error: No such module "convert". while surfaced and Script error: No such module "convert". when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at Script error: No such module "convert". when surfaced and Script error: No such module "convert". when submerged.

Fate

On 29 September 1918 while under the command of Reinhold Thomsen, UB-115 was engaged by armed trawlers (amongst others Viola), the airship R29, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. UB-115 was depth charged until destroyed and went down at position Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (WGS84), about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Beacon Point, Newton-by-the-Sea, off Northumberland. All 39 men aboard the submarine died in the attack and sinking.[2] [3]

UB-115Template:'s wreck lies in two pieces and is covered in soft corals and an accretion formed from fly ash from a local power plant.[2]

Summary of raiding history

Date Name Nationality Tonnage[Note 2] Fate[4]
21 September 1918 Staithes File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 336 Sunk

References

Notes

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  1. ↑ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (Template:Langx) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
  2. ↑ Tonnages are in gross register tons

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Citations

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