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Name | UB-52 |
Ordered | 20 May 1916 [1] |
Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
Cost | 3,276,000 German Papiermark |
Yard number | 297 |
Launched | 8 March 1917 [2] |
Commissioned | 9 August 1917 [2] |
Fate | Sunk 23 May 1918 at 41°36′N18°52′E / 41.600°N 18.867°E by HMS H4, all hands lost [2] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Type UB III submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 55.30 m (181 ft 5 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 5.80 m (19 ft) |
Draught | 3.68 m (12 ft 1 in) |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement | 3 officers, 31 men [2] |
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Operations: | 4 patrols |
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SM UB-52 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 Pola Flotilla of the German Imperial Navy on 9 August 1917 as SM UB-52. [Note 1]
She operated as part of the Pola Flotilla based in Cattaro. UB-52 was sunk by torpedo on 23 May 1918 at 41°36′N18°52′E / 41.600°N 18.867°E by the British submarine HMS H4 enforcing the Otranto Barrage at the southern end of the Adriatic, with all hands lost. [2]
UB-52 was ordered by the GIN on 20 May 1916. She was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 8 March 1917. UB-52 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Otto Launburg.
Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-52 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-52 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 9,040 nautical miles (16,740 km; 10,400 mi). UB-52 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons) while surfaced and 651 t (641 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph) when surfaced and 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) when submerged.
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage [Note 2] | Fate [3] |
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30 January 1918 | Empress Ekaterina II | ![]() | 5,545 | Sunk |
1 February 1918 | La Dives | ![]() | 2,108 | Sunk |
4 February 1918 | Maid of Harlech | ![]() | 315 | Sunk |
4 February 1918 | Sardinia | ![]() | 6,580 | Damaged |
5 February 1918 | HMS Rosina Ferrara | ![]() | 227 | Damaged |
9 February 1918 | Antenor | ![]() | 5,319 | Damaged |
18 February 1918 | Basque | ![]() | 3,261 | Damaged |
20 February 1918 | Balgray | ![]() | 3,603 | Sunk |
20 February 1918 | Zeno | ![]() | 2,890 | Sunk |
17 March 1918 | Ivydene | ![]() | 3,541 | Sunk |
18 March 1918 | John H. Barry | ![]() | 3,083 | Sunk |
18 March 1918 | Saldanha | ![]() | 4,594 | Sunk |
4 April 1918 | Sincerita | ![]() | 1,722 | Sunk |
2 May 1918 | Flawyl | ![]() | 3,592 | Sunk |
9 May 1918 | Atlantique | ![]() | 6,479 | Damaged |
11 May 1918 | Suzette Fraissinet | ![]() | 2,288 | Sunk |
12 May 1918 | Omrah | ![]() | 8,130 | Sunk |
18 May 1918 | Media | ![]() | 5,437 | Damaged |
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