German Type UB III submarine
- German Type UB III submarine
The UB III type submarine was a class of U-boat built during World War I by the Kaiserliche Marine.
UB III boats carried 10 torpedoes and were armed with one 88 mm deck gun. They carried a crew of 34 and had a cruising range of around 9,000 miles. Between 1916 and 1918 96 were built. [ [http://uboat.net/wwi/types/index.html?type=UB+III uboat.net - U-boat War in WWI - U-boat Types ] ]
The UB III type coastal submarine, despite being a submersible torpedo boat was less akin to UB-II type "attack" (i.e torpedo-launching) boats that preceded it than the highly successful UC-II type minelaying submarine. The UC-IIs had gained their fearsome reputation by sinking more than 1800 Allied and neutral vessels. [ [http://uboat.net/wwi uboat.net - The U-boat War in World War One (WWI) ] ] German engineers did not miss the chance of expanding the potential of this capable design by incorporating some of her features into a new submersible torpedoboat.
The UB-IIIs joined the conflict during the first days of the year 1917, at a time when the tide of the war was turning against Germany. In the months that followed, the United States Navy was added to the ranks of their enemies; and the convoy system was introduced, making it difficult to engage enemy merchant shipping without being spotted by destroyer escorts. [ Greg Goebel, The First Battle of the Atlantic, http://www.vectorsite.net/twsub2.html>] Nevertheless, the UB-IIIs performed their duties with distinction, sinking 567 ships before the end of hostilities.
Germany was prohibited from acquiring a new submarine force by the Treaty of Versailles, but her admirals had no intention of allowing their nation to forget how to construct submarines. Germany started to manufacture and to export slightly modified versions of UB-IIs and UB-IIIs. Having kept the skills of their engineers polished with this little trick, they eventually ordered the construction of a new coastal submarine. The resulting design was nothing more than an improved UB-III that had the benefit of new, all-welded construction techniques and an array of electronic and electromechanical gadgets: The famous Type VII submarine, the most common U-boat of the Kriegsmarine, was born. [ U-Boats of the Kaiser's Navy, G.Williamson and I.Palmer, 2002 ]
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