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 the 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 ( 50°29′24″N, 0°58′15″W) OSGB at 28 metres. [2]

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  1. ^ uboat.net - U-boat War in WWI - U-boat Index
  2. ^ Dive Wight and Hampshire, Martin Pritchard and Kendal McDonald, ISBN 0-946020-15-9]
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