Unterseeboot B-5

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Career (German Empire)
Name:	UB-5
Ordered:	November 15, 1914
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Laid down:	November 22, 1914
Commissioned:	March 25, 1915
Fate:	Stricken February 19, 1919. Broken up by Dräger, Lübeck in 1919.
Class and type:	UB I
Service record
Part of	Kaiserliche Marine
Commanders	Wilhelm Smiths
Operations	24
Victories	5 ships sunk for a total of 996 tons

Unterseeboot B-5 (also known as UB-5) was a German Type UB I U-boat built for the Kaiserliche Marine. She was commissioned November 22, 1915. She served in World War I under the command of Wilhelm Smiths. UB-5 recorded 5 ships sunk for a total of 996 tons on 24 patrols in 1915 and 1916. She was transferred to a training flotilla on September 21, 1916, and stricken February 19, 1919 at Dräger, Lübeck.

[edit] References

• Robert C. Stern. Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN 0-304-36228-X

[edit] External links

• U-boat.net. List of all U-Boats – UB-2. Retrieved on February 27, 2007.

See also: List of U-boats