WWI U-boats
UB 4
Type | UB I | ||||
Shipyard | Germaniawerft, Kiel (Werk 242) | ||||
Ordered | 15 Nov 1914 | ||||
Laid down | 3 Nov 1914 | ||||
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Commissioned | 23 Mar 1915 | ||||
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Career | 14 patrols | ||||
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Successes | 4 ships sunk with a total of 10,942 tons. (View ships hit by UB 4) | ||||
Fate | 15 Aug 1915 - Sunk by gunfire from Q-Ship Inverlyon off Yarmouth 5246N 0210E. 15 dead (all hands lost). |
On 10 April, 1915 U-Flottille Flandern claimed its first victim when UB 4 sank a steamer with a torpedo in the North Sea.