SM UB-144 [SEP] vessel class
SM UB-144
SM "UB-144" was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat built for the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was never commissioned into the German Imperial Navy but surrendered to Britain on 27 March 1919 and broken up in Rochester in 1922.
Construction.
She was built by Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft of Kiel and following just under a year of construction, launched at Kiel on 5 October 1918. "UB-144" carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a deck gun. "
with a deck-mounted machine gun. "UB-13" was broken into sections and shipped by rail to Antwerp for reassembly. She was launched in March 1915 and commissioned as SM "UB-13" in April.
"UB-13" spent her entire career in the Flanders Flotilla and sank 11 merchant ships, about half of them British fishing vessels. In March 1916, "UB-13" was responsible for sinking the Dutch ocean liner , raising the ire of the Dutch public. "Tubantia" was the largest neutral vessel sunk during