Unterseeboot B-81
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Unterseeboot B-81 or UB-81 was a German type UB III U-boat of the Kaiserliche Marine.
Her keel was laid down 5 Jan 1917, by AG Weser, of Bremen-Vegesack. She was commissioned 18 Sep 1917.[1]. She was mined on then night of 2 December 1917 to the south east of the Isle of Wight. The crew of 34, commanded by Reinhold Saltzwedel, managed to raise the forward torpedo tubes above the surface and 7 escaped before a collision occurred with a British patrol boat and she sunk. She now lies at ( ) OSGB at 28 metres. [2]
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- ^ http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+81
- ^ Dive Wight and Hampshire, Martin Pritchard and Kendal McDonald, ISBN 0-946020-15-9]
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