S.M.S. UB43
1916
(Navis 76)
- Class: UBII - 30 coastal submarines of 1915-16
- Displacement: 272/305 tons
- Dimensions: 118'5" x 14'5" x 12'2"
- Machinery: 2 shafts. 2 diesels, 2 electric motors, 284bhp/280shp = 9/6 knots
- Armament: 2-19.7in TT (2 bow); 1--8.8cm gun
- Complement: 22
- Builder: A. G. Weser, Bremen
- Launched: 8 Apr 1916
- Completed: 1916
- Actions: UBII type submarines had single-hull construction with saddle tanks. UB43 torpedoed and sank P&O liner Arabia 112 miles SW of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean, 6 Nov 1916. Sold to Austria 1917 as U43; to Italy as war reparations in 1918; scrapped 1919.
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