German submarine UA (1939)

	UA gun and conning tower detail
History
Nazi Germany
Name	UA (ex-Batiray)
Ordered	1936
Builder	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Laid down	10 February 1937
Launched	28 August 1938
Commissioned	20 September 1939
Fate	Scuttled on 3 May 1945
General characteristics
Displacement	1,128 t (1,110 long tons; 1,243 short tons) surfaced; 1,284 t (1,264 long tons) submerged;
Length	86.65 m (284 ft 3 in)
Beam	6.80 m (22 ft 4 in)
Draught	4.12 m (13 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	Burmeister & Wain diesel engines, 4,600 PS (4,537 shp; 3,383 kW); BBC electric motors 1,300 PS (1,282 shp; 956 kW); 2 shafts;
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) surfaced; 8.4 kn (15.6 km/h; 9.7 mph) submerged;
Range	13,000 nmi (24,000 km; 15,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced; 75 nmi (139 km; 86 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged;
Test depth	100 m (330 ft)
Complement	4 officers, 41 men
Armament	6 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern); 1 × 10.5 cm (4 in) L/45 deck gun; 1 × 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft gun; 40 mines;
Service record
Part of:	7th U-boat Flotilla; September 1939 – March 1941; 2nd U-boat Flotilla; April – December 1941; 7th U-boat Flotilla; December 1941 – August 1942; U-boat Defense School; August 1942 – March 1943; 4th U-boat Flotilla; March 1943 – November 1944; 24th U-boat Flotilla; November 1944 – January 1945; 18th U-boat Flotilla; January – March 1945; 24th U-boat Flotilla; March 1945;
Identification codes:	M 00 073
Commanders:	Kptlt. Hans Cohausz; 20 September 1939 – 31 October 1940; K.Kapt. Hans Eckermann; 1 November 1940 – 14 February 1942; K.Kapt. Hans Cohausz; 15 February – 14 May 1942; Ebe Schnoor; 15 May – 9 August 1942; Kptlt. / K.Kapt. Friedrich Schäfer; 10 August 1942 – 22 March 1943; Kptlt. / K.Kapt. Georg Peters; 23 March 1943 – 14 April 1944; Oblt.z.S. Ulrich-Philipp Graf von und zu Arco-Zinneberg; 18 April 1944 – 15 Mar 1945;
Operations:	9 patrols
Victories:	7 merchant ships sunk ; (32,014 GRT); 1 auxiliary warship sunk ; (13,950 GRT);

German submarine UA was one of fourteen foreign U-boats in the German Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.