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Name | UB-54 |
Ordered | 20 May 1916 [1] |
Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
Cost | 3,276,000 German Papiermark |
Yard number | 266 |
Laid down | 5 September 1916 [2] |
Launched | 18 April 1917 [3] |
Commissioned | 12 June 1917 [3] |
Fate | Sunk 11 March 1918 at 53°15′N0°45′E / 53.250°N 0.750°E by British destroyers, 36 dead [3] |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Type UB III submarine |
Type | Coastal submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 55.85 m (183 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 5.80 m (19 ft) |
Draught | 3.72 m (12 ft 2 in) |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement | 3 officers, 31 men |
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Operations: | 6 patrols |
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SM UB-54 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 Flanders Flotilla of the German Imperial Navy on 12 June 1917 as SM UB-54. [nb 1]
The submarine conducted 6 patrols and sank 14 ships during the war for a total loss of 7,200 gross register tons (GRT).
She operated as part of the Flanders Flotilla based in Zeebrugge. UB-54 was apparently sunk on 11 March 1918 at 53°15′N0°45′E / 53.250°N 0.750°E by British destroyers HMS Sturgeon, Thruster, and Retriever using depth charges, all hands were lost. [3]
UB-54 was ordered 20 May 1916. She was built by AG Weser, Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 18 April 1917. UB-54 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Egon von Werner.Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-54 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-54 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 9,020 nautical miles (16,710 km; 10,380 mi). UB-54 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons) while surfaced and 646 t (636 long tons; 712 short tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) when surfaced and 7.8 knots (14.4 km/h; 9.0 mph) when submerged.
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage [Note 1] | Fate [4] |
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20 August 1917 | HMS Vala | ![]() | 1,016 | Sunk |
25 August 1917 | Frigga | ![]() | 1,046 | Sunk |
13 December 1917 | Chili | ![]() | 1,318 | Sunk |
20 December 1917 | Noris | ![]() | 583 | Sunk |
21 December 1917 | Orne | ![]() | 928 | Sunk |
23 December 1917 | Ragna | ![]() | 1,747 | Sunk |
27 January 1918 | Nr. 14 | ![]() | 26 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | De Julia | ![]() | 13 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | De Twee Marcels | ![]() | 13 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | H. Debra Huysseme | ![]() | 46 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | Jean Mathilde | ![]() | 12 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | Le Jeune Arthur | ![]() | 25 | Sunk |
29 January 1918 | Marie | ![]() | 16 | Sunk |
30 January 1918 | Ferryhill | ![]() | 411 | Sunk |
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