UB 41

[Ron Young]

Hi Guys
More good news as far as lost subs is concerned, because UB 41, which was thought to be lost off Scarborough has finally been found, but 10-miles from the suggested position.

She was a Type UBII torpedo attack boat of the SM UB30-41 class, designed as a single-hulled vessel for coastal patrol work. Blohm & Voss Shipyard at Hamburg built and launched on 6 May 1916. Oblt.z.S. Karl Sichart von Sichartshofen as her first Commanding Officer commissioned her on 25 August 1916,. The boat had a surface displacement of 274-tons.
With Max Ploen in command, SM UB 41 departed Bremerhaven with a crew of twenty-four on 30 September 1917. For her thirteenth and unluckiest war patrol she sailed to the stretch of coastline between Flamborough Head and Whitby, searching for allied ships. On 3 October 1917, the 502-ton steamship CLYDERBRAE was torpedoed and badly damaged by UB 41, five nautical miles north from Scarborough. On 5 October a British steamship reported the sighting of a German submarine only two nautical miles east from Scarborough; then two hours later the signal station watchers at Scarborough reported a massive detonation, bearing east northeast in the estimated position: 54° 18’N 00° 21’W. Rescue vessels raced through heavy seas to the scene and found debris, but no sign of any survivors or human remains.

Position of the sub is a closely guarded secret for now.
Cheers Ron