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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
UA (ex-Batiray)		575	Germaniawerft, Kiel	2.1937	28.9.1938	9/1939	scuttled 3.5.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	1128 / 1357
Length, m	86.7
Breadth, m	6.80
Draught, m	4.12
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Burmeister & Wain diesels / 2 BBC electric motors
Power, h. p.	4600 / 1300
Max speed, kts	18 / 8.4
Fuel, t	diesel oil 250
Endurance, nm(kts)	13100(10) / 75(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12 or 36 mines)
Electronic equipment	GHG hydrophone
Complement	45
Diving depth operational, m	100

Standard scale images

Project history

Ordered by Turkey in 1937 as Batiray together with two smaller submarines of II series but requisitioned by Germany with the Second World War beginning. She was designed as minelayer, but mines were laid only through TTs. In the remaining she was close to German submarines of IX series, the truth, differed by massive CT with 105mm gun, superficially resembling British-built submarines.

Modernizations

1942-1943, presumably: + FuMO 30 radar, FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite

1943-1944, presumably: - FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite; + FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites

1944-1945, may be: - FuMO 30 radar; + FuMO 61 radar

Naval service

UA was 3.5.1945 scuttled at Kiel.