SM UC-50

SM UC-50 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 20 November 1915 and was launched on 23 November 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 21 December 1916 as SM UC-50. In 9 patrols UC-50 was credited with sinking 27 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-50 was sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Zubian in the Dover Strait off Dungeness on 4 February 1918.