The U-boat was ordered on 12 January 1916 and was launched on 25 May 1918. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 October 1918 as SM UC-105.[Note 1] As with the rest of the completed UC III boats, UC-105 conducted no war patrols and sank no ships. She was surrendered on 22 November 1918 and broken up in Swansea in 1922.[1]