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U27 1918 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
U27		82	CNT, Monfalcone	5/1916	19.10.1916	2/1917	to Italy 1920
U28		83	CNT, Monfalcone	6/1916	8.1.1917	5/1917	to Italy 1920
U29		69	Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi	3/1916	21.10.1916	1/1917	to Italy 1920
U30		70	Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi	3/1916	27.12.1916	2/1917	lost 1-2.4.1917
U31		71	Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi	7/1916	20.3.1917	4/1917	to France 1920
U32		72	Danubius, Fiume-Bergudi	7/1916	11.5.1917	6/1917	to Italy 1920
U40		84	CNT, Monfalcone	8/1916	21.4.1917	8/1917	to Italy 1920

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	278 / 312
Length, m	37.7 wl 36.9 pp
Breadth, m	4.37
Draught, m	3.67
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Körting diesels / 2 SSW electric motors
Power, h. p.	300 / 280
Max speed, kts	9 / 5.7
Fuel, t	diesel oil 27
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(5) / 45(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/27 G. L/30 K.16 BAG, 2 - 450 TT (bow, 4)
Complement	19
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

Modified Austrian license-built variant of the German UB II type. Ordered on 12 October 1915, they were built at the Pola N Yd, except U29-32 which were built by Danubius, Fiume.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All saw active service in the latter part of the war; U30 was lost by unknown cause in the Otranto Straits 1-2.4.1917; U31 was allocated to France in 1920 and scrapped, while all the others were allocated to Italy; U27 was scrapped at Fiume, and all the others at Venice.

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