SM UB-75 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 11 September 1917 as SM UB-75.
UB-75 was serving in the Flanders Flotillas. On 10 December 1917 she was lost with all hands after hitting a mine.
See main article: Type UB III submarine. She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 5 May 1917. UB-75 was commissioned later that same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-75 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 8.82NaN2 deck gun. UB-75 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 8680nmi. UB-75 had a displacement of 516lk=inNaNlk=in while surfaced and 648t when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.6kn when surfaced and when submerged.
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage[1] | Fate[2] | |
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4 November 1917 | Lucida | United Kingdom | 1,477 | Damaged | |
9 November 1917 | Frithjof Eide | Norway | 1,207 | Sunk | |
5 December 1917 | Aigburth | United Kingdom | 824 | Sunk | |
6 December 1917 | Leda | Netherlands | 1,140 | Sunk | |
7 December 1917 | Highgate | United Kingdom | 1,780 | Sunk | |
8 December 1917 | Lampada | United Kingdom | 2,230 | Sunk | |
9 December 1917 | Venetia | United Kingdom | 3,596 | Sunk |