SM UB-98 [SEP] vessel class
SM UB-98
SM "UB-98" was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 8 August 1918 as SM "UB-98".
"UB-98" was surrendered on 21 November 1918 and broken up in Porthmadog in 1922. Reportedly, the steel plates of the submarine were used to line Garnedd Tunnel on the Ffestiniog Railway, but this has never been proven.
Construction.
She was built by AG
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