Departing from: Bremerhaven, Germany, 29 JANUARY 1918

Returning to: Bremerhaven, Germany, 21 February 1918

U-boat Type: Coastal Cruiser, Class B, Type III

Ship Yard: Blohm and Voss, Hamburg, Germany.

Ordered: 23 September 1916, Building Contract No. 306

Launch Date: 5 May, 1917

Commissioned: 2 October, 1917

Displacement: 502 tons (surface), 723 tons (submerged).

Length: 181 Ft. Beam: 19.5 Ft.

Speed: Surface 13.4 knots. Submerged 7.8 knots.

Torpedo Tubes: 4 in the Bow (front), 1 in the Stern (rear).

Torpedo capacity: 10

Guns: 2

Seagoing Compliment: 7 Officers and 28 men.

Armistice: Surrendered at Harwich, 1st January, 1919.

Sold for junk and broken up by Messrs. G. Cohen, Sons & Co., London

Note: Germany in the First World War had three U-boats No. 77.

1. U-77 sunk 7th of July 1916; Kinnaird Head, Scotland - 33 men lost.

2. UB-77

3. UC-77 sunk 14th of July 1918; Flanders coast, Belgium - 30 men lost.

2005 Information Source:

Leonard Zimmerman "Last of the Fleet" 1956; Page 10

Duncan Darroch "Kapitan Leutnant Wilhelm Meyer" 1956; Page 1

Wisconsin Newspaper

5th Feb. 1936 - Sheboygan Press, "History of the Tuscania Destruction," Page 4, 5, 6, 8.