Unterseeboot B-46

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Career (German Empire)

Name:	Unterseeboot B-46
Ordered:	31 July 1915
Builder:	AG Weser, Bremen
Laid down:	4 September 1915
Launched:	31 May 1916
Commissioned:	12 June 1916
Fate:	Sunk by a Mine on 7 December 1916 in the Bosporous.
General characteristics
Class and type:	UB II class submarine
Notes:	Was yard number 248

For other ships of the same name, see Unterseeboot 46.

Unterseeboot B-46 was a German UB II class coastal attack submarine in World War I. She was commissioned on June 12, 1916 under the command of Cäsar Bauer and eventually went on five patrols, serving initially with the Pola Flotilla and later the Constantinople Flotilla. She sank four ships, with a total tonnage of 8,099 tons, before being sunk by a mine in the Bosporus on December 7, 1916, with the loss of all 20 of her crew. The wreckage is currently on display at the Naval museum in Istanbul.