![]() UB-148 at sea, a U-boat similar to UB-125.
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Name | UB-125 |
Ordered | 6 / 8 February 1917[2] |
Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
Cost | 3,654,000 German Papiermark |
Yard number | 298 |
Laid down | 19 July 1917[3] |
Launched | 16 April 1918[1] |
Commissioned | 18 May 1918[1] |
Fate | Surrendered 20 November 1918[1] |
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Name | O-6 |
Commissioned | 1920[1] |
Decommissioned | 1921[1] |
Fate | Broken up in Kure[1] |
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Class and type | German Type UB III submarine |
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Length | 55.85 m (183 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 5.80 m (19 ft) |
Draught | 3.72 m (12 ft 2 in) |
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Range |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement | 3 officers, 31 men[1] |
Armament |
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Operations: | 2 patrols |
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SM UB-125 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 18 May 1918 as SM UB-125.[Note 1]
UB-125 was surrendered 20 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany. Handed over to Japan, she served as O-6 in the Imperial Japanese Navy until 1921 when she was broken up in Kure.[1]
Main article: German Type UB III submarine |
She was built by AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 16 April 1918. UB-125 was commissioned later the same year under the command of Kptlt. Fritz Schubert. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-125 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a 10.5 cm (4.13 in) deck gun. UB-125 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of 7,280 nautical miles (13,480 km; 8,380 mi). UB-125 had a displacement of 512 t (504 long tons) while surfaced and 643 t (633 long tons) when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at 13.9 knots (25.7 km/h; 16.0 mph) when surfaced and 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) when submerged.
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage[Note 2] | Fate[6] |
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29 August 1918 | Atxeri Mendi | ![]() |
2,424 | Sunk |
30 August 1918 | Onega | ![]() |
3,636 | Sunk |
1 September 1918 | Actor | ![]() |
6,082 | Damaged |
3 September 1918 | Brava | ![]() |
3,184 | Sunk |
3 September 1918 | Lake Owens | ![]() |
2,308 | Sunk |
4 September 1918 | Bogstad | ![]() |
1,589 | Sunk |
12 September 1918 | Skjold | ![]() |
166 | Sunk |