SM UC 46

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SM UC 46
( all submarines )
Type : UC II
Shipyard: AG Weser , Bremen
Keel laying: February 1, 1916
Launch: August 8, 1916
Commissioning: September 15, 1916
Commanders:

Oblt. Friedrich Moecke

Flotilla:

Flanders

Calls: 4th
Sinkings:

10

Whereabouts: Sunk February 8, 1917

SM UC 46 was a German submarine of the Imperial Navy of the type UC II , which was sunk on February 8, 1917 in the North Sea off Dover by ramming from the British warship HMS Liberty . The entire crew under the commandant Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Möcke perished. The wreck lies southeast of the Goodwin Sands .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ UC 46 - German and Austrian U-boats of World War One - Kaiserliche Marine - uboat.net. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E