SM UC 99

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SM UC 99
( all submarines )
Japanese submarine Maru-5 in 1919.jpg
UC 99 as O-5 in Japan
Type : UC III
Shipyard: Blohm + Voss , Hamburg
Build number: 333
Launch: March 17, 1918
Commissioning: September 20, 1918
Commanders:
  • First lieutenant to the sea Friedrich Weißhun
Calls:
Sinkings:
Whereabouts: Canceled in 1920 in Yokosuka , Japan

SM UC 99 was a submarine of the Imperial Navy of type UC , which in the First World War was used.

Calls

no

Whereabouts

UC 99 was handed over to the Allies and declared Japanese spoils of war . The Japanese put the boat into service as O5 (Japanese 艦) and transfer it to Japan. After extensive tests, the boat was partially dismantled in Yokosuka and the hull was sunk during torpedo tests.

UC 99 next to UC 90 on the Japanese cruiser Nisshin

Sinking successes

no

literature

  • Harald Bendert: The UC boats of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918 . 1st edition. ES Mittler & Sohn GmbH, 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0758-7 .
  • Wolfgang Göthling, Oliver Lörscher, Simon Schnetzke: DELIVERED - The German submarines 1918–1920 and their whereabouts . 1st edition. digital business and printing gmbH Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-037421-0 .

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