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SM UC-97
A type UC III submarine built in 1918, lost on Lake Michigan in 1921. The record: “Surrendered, 22 November 1918; sunk as target in Lake Michigan, 7 June 1921.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1921
SM UC-97
Type UC III submarine · built 1918 · lost 1921
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Type UC III submarine
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Launched
- 17 March 1918
- Length
- 185 ft (56 m)
- Beam
- 18 ft (5 m)
- Fate
- Surrendered, 22 November 1918; sunk as target in Lake Michigan, 7 June 1921
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The same decade
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- SS Senator1929 · collision
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SM UC-97, retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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