UB-148 at sea, a U-boat similar to UB-77.
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German Empire | |
Name: | UB-77 |
Ordered: | 23 September 1916 |
Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
Cost: | 3,338,000 German Papiermark |
Yard number: | 306 |
Launched: | 5 May 1917 |
Commissioned: | 2 October 1917 |
Fate: | surrendered 16 January 1919. |
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Class and type: | German Type UB III submarine |
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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 |
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Operations: | 7 patrols |
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SM UB-77 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 2 October 1917 as SM UB-77.
UB-77 was surrendered on 16 January 1919 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany and broken up in Swansea in 1921.
UB-77 was ordered by the GIN on 23 September 1916.
She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 5 May 1917. UB-77 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kptlt. Wilhelm Meyer. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-77 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun. UB-77 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8,680 nautical miles (16,080 km; 9,990 mi). UB-77 had a displacement of 516 t (508 long tons) while surfaced and 648 t (638 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.6 knots (25.2 km/h; 15.7 mph) when surfaced and 7.8 knots (14.4 km/h; 9.0 mph) when submerged.