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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: SM UB-43, SM UB-47, SM UB-42, SM UB-45, SM UB-46, German submarine Deutschland, SM U-79, SM UB-44, SM U-55, SM U-53, SM UC-42, SM UC-38, SM UC-55, SM UB-21, SM UB-33, SM UC-41, SM U-51, SM UC-29, SM U-86, SM UC-48, SM UC-47, SM UC-46, SM UC-70, SM UC-50, SM UC-74, SM UC-45, SM UC-44, SM UC-49, SM UC-66, SM UC-39, SM UC-61, SM UC-33, SM UC-56, SM UC-31, SM UC-19, SM UC-24, SM UC-16, SM UB-107, SM UC-65, SM UC-26, SM UC-35, SM UC-68, SM UC-43, SM UC-34, SM UC-40, SM UC-18, SM UC-21, SM UC-32, SM UC-75, SM UC-71, SM UC-77, SM UC-69, SM UB-30, SM UC-36, SM UC-25, SM UC-76, SM UC-23, SM UC-17, SM UC-27, SM UC-20, SM UC-37, SM UC-22, SM UC-67, SM UC-73, SM UC-30, SM UC-72, SM UC-28, SM UB-36, SM UB-27, SM U-83, SM UB-35, SM UB-28, SM UB-32, SM UB-40, SM UB-29, SM UB-23, SM UB-37, SM UB-38, SM UB-41, SM UB-31, SM UB-34, SM UB-20, SM UB-22, SM UB-39, SM U-64, SM U-47, SM U-61, SM U-49. Excerpt: SM UB-43 was a Type UB II submarine or U-boat for the German Imperial Navy (German: ) during World War I. UB-43 was sold to the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: ) during the war. In Austro-Hungarian service the B was dropped from her name and she was known as SM U-43 or U-XLIII as the lead boat of the Austro-Hungarian U-43 class. UB-43 was ordered in July 1915 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in September. UB-43 was a little more than 121 feet (37 m) in length and displaced between 270 and 305 metric tons (300 and 336 short tons), depending on whether surfaced or submerged. She was equipped to carry a complement of four torpedoes for her two bow torpedo tubes and had an 88-millimeter (3.5 in) deck gun. As part of a group of six submarines selected for Mediterranean service, UB-43 was broken into railcar sized components and shipped to Pola where she was assembled and launched in early April 1916, and commissioned la...
