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U43 1917 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
U43 (ex-UB43)		245	Weser, Bremen, Germany	1915	8.4.1916	4.1916 // 7.1917	to France 1920
U47 (ex-UB47)		249	Weser, Bremen, Germany	1915	17.6.1916	7.1916 // 7.1917	to France 1920

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	272 / 305
Length, m	36.9
Breadth, m	4.37
Draught, m	3.68
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Daimler diesels / 2 SSW electric motors
Power, h. p.	284 / 280
Max speed, kts	8.8 / 6.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil 27
Endurance, nm(kts)	6940(5) / 45(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 2 - 500 TT (bow, 4)
Complement	23
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

U43 and U47 were both built in Germany by AG Weser in 1916, transferred to Pola by railway and commissioned as the German UB43 and UB47; after one year's service both were decommissioned on 21 June 1917 and sold in a worn-out condition to the Austro-Hungarian Navy which commissioned them as U43 and U47 on 30 July 1917.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

After active service they were ceded as war reparations to France and scrapped in 1920.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.