UB 85

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UB 85
Overview
Type UB III
Shipyard

AG Weser, Bremen

1. Period of service flag
Commissioning November 24, 1917
Whereabouts Sunk in the Irish Sea on April 30, 1918.
Technical specifications
displacement

651 t under water

length

55.30

width

5.80

Draft

3.68

crew

34

speed

13.6  kn (25.2  km / h )

UB 85 was a German class UB III submarine . The boat entered service on November 24, 1917. On April 30, 1918, the boat was shot at and sunk in the Irish Sea by the HMS Coreopsis . The 34-man crew were rescued.

The wreck may have been found in 2016 during offshore work to lay a submarine cable.

Individual evidence

  1. Apparently legendary German submarine UB-85 found , Stern, October 20, 2016.