SM UB-34

SM UB-45 a u-boat similar to UB-34
Career (German Empire)
Name:	UB-34
Ordered:	22 July 1915[1]
Builder:	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[1]
Cost:	1,152,000 German Papiermark[2]
Yard number:	258[1]
Launched:	28 December 1915[1]
Completed:	17 May 1916[1]
Commissioned:	10 June 1916[3]
Fate:	surrendered 26 November 1918[3]
General characteristics
Class & type:	German Type UB II submarine
Displacement:	274 t (270 long tons) surfaced[2] 303 t (298 long tons) submerged[2]
Length:	36.9 m (121 ft 1 in)[2]
Beam:	437 m (1,433 ft 9 in)[2]
Draft:	3.69 m (12 ft 1 in)[2]
Propulsion:	2 × propeller shafts 2 × Benz diesel engines, 270 shp (200 kW)[2] 2 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 280 shp (210 kW)[2]
Speed:	9.06 knots (16.78 km/h; 10.43 mph) surfaced[2] 5.71 knots (10.57 km/h; 6.57 mph) submerged[2]
Range:	7,030 nautical miles (13,020 km; 8,090 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) surfaced[2] 45 nmi (83 km; 52 mi) at 4 knots submerged[2]
Test depth:	50 m (160 ft)[2]
Complement:	2 officers, 21 men[2]
Armament:	2 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes[2] 4 × torpedoes (later 6) 1 × 5 cm SK L/40 gun[2]
Notes:	42-second diving time[2]

SM UB-34 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 5 December 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 10 June 1916 as SM UB-34.^{[Note 1]}

UB-34 sank 31 ships in 21 patrols. They included the William Cory and Son collier SS Hurstwood, which UB-34 torpedoed and sank in the North Sea off Whitby on 5th February 1917.^[4]

The submarine served in the Training Flotilla at the end of the war and was surrendered on 26 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. UB-34 was broken up in Canning Town in 1922.^[5]

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