SM UB-36

Career (German Empire)
Name: UB-36
Ordered: 22 July 1915[1]
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[2]
Yard number: 260[1]
Launched: 15 January 1916[1]
Commissioned: 22 May 1916[1]
Fate: disappeared in May 1917; possibly mined off Flanders coast[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: German Type UB II submarine
Displacement: 274 t (302 short tons), surfaced[2]
303 t (334 short tons), submerged
Length: 121 ft (37 m)[3]
Beam: 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m)[3]
Draft: 12 ft 2 in (4 m)[3]
Propulsion: 2 × propeller shafts
2 × diesel engines, 270–284 bhp (200–212 kW)[3]
2 × electric motor, 280 shp (210 kW)[3]
Speed: 9.06 knots (16.78 km/h), surfaced[2]
5.71 knots (10.57 km/h), submerged
Endurance: 7,030 nautical miles @ 5 knots, surfaced[3]
(13,020 km @ 9.3 km/h)
45 nautical miles @ 4 knots, submerged[3]
(83 km @ 7.4 km/h)
Test depth: 50 m (160 ft)[3]
Complement: 22[3]
Armament: 2 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes[3]
4 × torpedoes (later 6)
1 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) deck gun[3]
Notes: 30-second diving time[2]

SM UB-36 was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 15 January 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 22 May 1916 as SM UB-36.[Note 1] The submarine sank 7 ships in 12 patrols. UB-36 disappeared after 9 May 1917. Uboat.net reports that it was previously reported that UB-36 was rammed by the French freighter Molière off the coast of Ushant; this attack, however, was on UC-36. The reason for UB-36's demise is unknown.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UB-36". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+36. Retrieved 21 February 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c d Tarrant, p. 172.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gardiner, p. 181.

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