SM UB-49
| History | |
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| German Empire | |
| Name | UB-49 |
| Ordered | 20 May 1916 |
| Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Cost | 3,276,000 German Papiermark |
| Yard number | 294 |
| Launched | 6 January 1917 |
| Commissioned | 28 June 1917 |
| Fate | Handed over to the United Kingdom 16 January 1919 and broken up in Swansea 1922. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Type UB III submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 55.30 m (181 ft 5 in) o/a |
| Beam | 5.80 m (19 ft) |
| Draught | 3.68 m (12 ft 1 in) |
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| Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dingi |
| Complement | 3 officers, 31 men |
| Sensors & processing systems | 2 periscopes |
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| Operations: | 8 patrols |
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SM UB-49 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 June 1917 as SM UB-49.
UB-49 served mainly in the Mediterranean. In the Austro-Hungarian Navy she was listed as SM U-80. In eight wartime patrols she sank 40 ships totaling 72,817 gross register tons (GRT) and one escort. After the Armistice with Germany UB-49 returned to Kiel via Norway. Handed over to the United Kingdom on 16 January 1919, she was broken up in Swansea in 1922.