SM UA

Career (German Empire)
Name: UA
Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel
Cost: 1,729,000 Goldmark
Yard number: 202
Laid down: October 1912
Launched: 9 May 1914
Commissioned: 14 August 1914
General characteristics
Type:Norwegian A class submarine
Displacement:270 metric tons (300 short tons) surfaced
342 metric tons (377 short tons) submerged
Length:46.7 m (153 ft 3 in) (OA)
Beam:4.78 m (15 ft 8 in)
Draught:2.8 m (9 ft 2 in)
Propulsion:2 shafts
Germania 6-cylinder four stroke Diesel engine with 700 ihp (520 kW)
2 × SSW modyn by with 380 ihp (280 kW)
450 rpm surfaced
350 rpm submerged
Speed:14.2 knots (26.3 km/h) surfaced
7.3 knots (13.5 km/h) submerged
Range:900 nautical miles (1,700 km; 1,000 mi) at 10 kn
Test depth:50 m (160 ft)
Complement:3 officers, 18 men
Sensors and
processing systems:		2 x periscopes
Armament:3 x 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tube with 5 torpedoes
1 8.8 cm (3.5 in) deck gun
1 machine gun
Service record
Part of: Imperial German Navy

SM UA was a U-boat of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Built as the fifth submarine of the Norwegian A class the boat was launched 9 May 1914 and confiscated by the German government after the outbreak of World War I on 5 August 1914. Commissioned as SM U 0 on 14 August 1914 the boat was renamed UA two weeks later and assigned to coastal protection. In 1916 UA was transferred to the Uschule (Submarine School). After the Armistice with Germany in November 1918 UA was surrendered to France and ultimately broken up at Toulon in 1920-21.

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