UC-5 displayed in Central Park, New York |
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| Career (German Empire) | |
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| Name: | UC-5 |
| Ordered: | by November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen[2] |
| Yard number: | 49[1] |
| Launched: | 13 June 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 19 June 1915[1] |
| Fate: | grounded, 27 April 1916; captured by the British[1] |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | Kaiserliche Marine |
| Commanders: | Herbert Pustkuchen Ulrich Mohrbutter |
| Operations: | 29 patrols |
| Victories: | 29 ships sunk for a total of 36.288 tons |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC I submarine |
| Displacement: | 168 t (185 short tons), surfaced[2] 182 t (201 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m)[3] |
| Beam: | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)[3] |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3 m)[3] |
| Propulsion: | 1 × propeller shaft 1 × Benz 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine, 90 bhp (67 kW)[3] 1 × electric motor, 175 shp (130 kW)[3] |
| Speed: | 6.49 knots (12.02 km/h), surfaced[2] 5.67 knots (10.50 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 910 nautical miles @ 5 knots, surfaced[3] (1,690 km @ 9.3 km/h) 50 nautical miles @ 4 knots, submerged[3] (93 km @ 7.4 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft)[3] |
| Complement: | 14[3] |
| Armament: | 6 × 100 cm (39 in) mine tubes[3] 12 × UC 120 mines 1 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine gun[2] |
SM UC-5 was a German Type UC I minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat had been ordered by November 1914 and was launched on 13 June 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 19 June 1915 as SM UC-5.[Note 1] She served in World War I under the command of Herbert Pustkuchen (June 1915 - December 1915) and Ulrich Mohrbutter (December 1915 - April 1916).
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UC-5 had an impressive career, with 29 ships sunk for a total of 36,288 tons on 29 patrols. On August 21, 1915 UC-5 became the first submarine minelayer to penetrate into the English Channel, laying 12 mines off Boulogne, one of which sank the steamship William Dawson the same day. UC-5 went on to lay 6 more mines off Boulogne and Folkestone on 7 September, one of which sank the cable layer Monarch.[4]
UC-5 ran aground while on patrol 27 April 1916 at and was scuttled. Her crew were captured by HMS Firedrake and the submarine was displayed at Temple Pier on the Thames river and, later, in New York for propaganda purposes.[5]
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