SM UB-86

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SM UB-86 stranded at Falmouth, 1921.
Career (German Empire)
Name: UB-86
Ordered: 23 September 1916[1]
Builder: AG Weser, Bremen[2]
Cost: 3,341,000 German Papiermark[2]
Yard number: 286[2]
Launched: 10 October 1917[3]
Commissioned: 10 November 1917[3]
Fate: surrendered 24 November 1918, broken up at Falmouth[3]
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type UB III submarine
Type: Coastal submarine
Displacement: 516 t (508 long tons; 569 short tons) surfaced
647 t (637 long tons; 713 short tons) submerged[2]
Length: 55.85 m (183.2 ft) o/a[2]
Beam: 5.8 m (19 ft)[2]
Draught: 3.72 m (12.2 ft)[2]
Propulsion: 2 shafts
6-cylinder Benz diesel engines,[4] 1,060 ihp (790 kW)
Brown, Boveri & Cie[4] electric motors, 788 ihp (588 kW)[2]
Speed: 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) surfaced
7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) submerged[2]
Range: 8,180 nmi (15,150 km; 9,410 mi) at 6 kn (11 km/h; 6.9 mph) surfaced
50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged[2]
Test depth: 50 m (160 ft)[4]
Complement: 3 officers, 31 men[4]
Armament: • 5 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern) with 10 torpedoes
• 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun[4]
Service record
Part of:

German Imperial Navy[2]

Commanders:

SM UB-86 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 31 October 1917 as SM UB-86.[nb 1]

UB-86 was surrendered to the British on 24 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. On her way to Falmouth, Cornwall, UB-86 and three other u-boats stranded and were broken up in Falmouth in 1921.[3]

Construction

She was built by AG Weser of Bremen[2] and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 10 October 1917. UB-86 was commissioned later that same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-86 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-86 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,180 nautical miles (15,150 km).[2] UB-86 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons; 569 short tons) while surfaced and 647 t (637 long tons; 713 short tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) when surfaced and 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) when submerged.[2]


Notes

Footnotes
  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.
Citations
  1. Rössler 1979, p. 55.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Gröner 1985, p. 52.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gröner 1985, p. 54.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Gröner 1985, p. 53.


References

  • Gröner, Erich (1985). "U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher". Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 III (Koblenz: Bernhard&Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4. 
  • Bendert, Harald (2000). Die UB-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine, 1914-1918. Einsätze, Erfolge, Schicksal. Hamburg: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH. ISBN 3-8132-0713-7. 
  • Rössler, Eberhard (1979). "U-Bootbau bis Ende des 1. Weltkrieges, Konstruktionen für das Ausland und die Jahre 1935 - 1945". Die deutschen U-Boote und ihre Werften I (Munich: Bernhard&Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-5213-7. 
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