German Type UC I submarine
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 A type UC I submarine |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | AG Weser, Bremen; Vulkan Hamburg; |
| Operators: |  Kaiserliche Marine Royal Netherlands Navy Austro-Hungarian Navy_crowned.svg){kind=small} Regia Marina |
| Succeeded by: | UC II |
| Built: | 1915 |
| In commission: | 1915–1918 |
| Planned: | 15 |
| Completed: | 15 |
| Lost: | 14 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Preserved: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | coastal minelaying submarine |
| Displacement: | 168 tons (surfaced) 183 tons (submerged) |
| Length: | Overall: 34.0 m (112 ft) |
| Beam: | Overall: 3.2 m (10 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.0 m (9.8 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft 6 cylinder diesel engines, 90 hp (67 kW) Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 175 hp (130 kW) |
| Speed: | Surfaced: 6.2 kn (11.5 km/h; 7.1 mph) Submerged: 5.2 kn (9.6 km/h; 6.0 mph) |
| Range: | Surfaced: 780 mi (1,260 km) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) Submerged: 50 mi (80 km) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) |
| Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Complement: | 14 men |
| Armament: | 12 mines in 6 internal chutes |
The UC I submarines were a class of U boats built for the Imperial German Navy during World War I. They were the first operational minelaying submarines in the world although the Russian submarine Krab was started earlier. The boats sole armament was six internal mine tubes with 12 mines, although UC 11 was fitted with a single external torpedo tube in 1916.
[edit] List of Ships
- UC-1, sunk by British seaplanes July 1917
- UC-2, rammed and sunk by SS Cottingham July 1915, raised by British examined and put on display
- UC-3, mined May 1916
- UC-4, scuttled October 1918
- UC-5, stranded and captured by British April 1916
- UC-6, sunk by British seaplanes July 1917
- UC-7, sunk by HMS Salmon July 1916
- UC-8, interned by Netherlands after grounding, served in Dutch Navy as the M1, BU 1932 ref
- UC-9, sunk by own mines October 1915
- UC-10, sunk by HM submarine E 54 August 1916
- UC-11, mined June 1918
- UC-12, transferred to Austria Hungarian Navy, blown up by own mines March 1916 near Taranto - raised and repaired by Italy as X1 stricken 1919
- UC-13, stranded and blown up November 1915
- UC-14, mined October 1917
- UC-15, mined November 1916
[edit] References
- Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1922
- page from Uboat.net
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