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Name: | UC-67 |
Ordered: | 12 January 1916[1] |
Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[2] |
Yard number: | 283[1] |
Launched: | 6 August 1916[1] |
Commissioned: | 10 December 1916[1] |
Fate: | surrendered, January 1919; broken up, 1919–20[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
Displacement: | 427 t (471 short tons), surfaced[2] 508 t (560 short tons), submerged |
Length: | 165 ft 2 in (50.34 m)[2] |
Beam: | 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)[2] |
Draft: | 12 ft 2 in (4 m)[3] |
Propulsion: | 2 × propeller shafts 2 × 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engines, 500 bhp (370 kW)[3] 2 × electric motors, 460 shp (340 kW)[3] |
Speed: | 12.0 knots (22.2 km/h), surfaced[2] 7.4 knots (13.7 km/h), submerged |
Endurance: | 10,420 nautical miles @ 7 knots, surfaced[3] (19,300 km @ 13 km/h) 52 nautical miles @ 4 knots, submerged[3] (96 km @ 7.4 km/h) |
Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft)[3] |
Complement: | 26[3] |
Armament: | 6 × 100 cm (39.4 in) mine tubes[3] 18 × UC 200 mines 3 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 bow/external; one stern) 7 × torpedoes 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) KL/30 deck gun[2] |
Notes: | 35-second diving time[2] |
Service record | |
Part of: | Imperial German Navy |
Commanders: | Martin Niemöller |
SM UC-67 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 12 January 1916 and was launched on 6 August 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 10 December 1916 as SM UC-67.[Note 1] In 11 patrols UC-67 was credited with sinking 53 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-67 was surrendered on 16 January 1919 and broken up at Brighton Ferry in 1919–20.[1]
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