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SM UB-65
50.6110° N, -5.0050° E
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SM UB-65 was a Type UB III U-boat of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Ordered on 20 May 1916, the U-boat was built at the Vulkan Werke shipyard in Hamburg, launched on 26 June 1917, and commissioned on 18 August 1917, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Martin Schelle.
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Departed Heligoland
2 July 1918
Sank Pensilva
4 May 1918
Sank Havana
5 March 1918
Presumed lost (German record)
10 July 1918
Likely loss based on wreck evidence
on or after 14 July 1918
Sank HMS Arbutus
15 December 1917
Commissioned
18 August 1917
Ordered
20 May 1916
Launched
26 June 1917
Rediscovery and identification
2004
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