SM UB-119

SM UB-119 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 9 February 1918 as SM UB-119.
UB-119 went missing after 5 May 1918; last contact was off the northern coast of Ireland.

Construction

She was built by AG Weser of Bremen and following just under a year of construction, launched at Bremen on 13 December 1917. UB-119 was commissioned early the next year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Walter Kolbe. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-119 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a deck gun. UB-119 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of. UB-119 had a displacement of while surfaced and when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at when surfaced and when submerged.

Previously recorded fate

UB-119 was previously thought to have been rammed by at between Rathlin Island and the Irish coast. Research by Pamela Armstrong established that UB-119 attacked the steamer Wheatear by gunfire in the same area four hours after the Green Island incident.