SM UC-1
"UC1" redirects here. For the Danish submarine, see UC1 Freya.
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-1.
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| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-1 |
| Ordered: | by November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
| Yard number: | 45[1] |
| Launched: | 26 April 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 5 July 1915[1] |
| Fate: | disappeared after 18 July 1917[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC I submarine |
| Displacement: | 168 t (185 short tons), surfaced[2] 183 t (202 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 × Daimler 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine, 90 bhp (67 kW)[3] 1 × electric motor, 175 shp (130 kW)[3] |
| Speed: | 6.20 knots (11.48 km/h), surfaced[2] 5.22 knots (9.67 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 780 nautical miles at 5 knots, surfaced[3] (1,440 km at 9.3 km/h) 50 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (93 km at 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] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Imperial German Navy: Flandern Flottilla 25 Jun 1915 - 19 Jul 1917 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Egon von Werner[4] Oblt Christian Mildenstein[10] 2 Jun 1917 – 19 Jul 1917 |
| Operations: | 80 patrols |
| Victories: |
36 merchant ships sunk (55,869 gross register tons (GRT)) 7 merchant ships damaged (45,844 GRT) 5 warships sunk (3,067 tons) |
SM UC-1 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 26 April 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 5 July 1915 as SM UC-1.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-1 in her 80 patrols were credited with sinking 41 ships. UC-1 disappeared after 18 July 1917.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[11] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 1915 | HMS Lightning |  Royal Navy |
320 | Sunk |
| 14 July 1915 | Rym |  Norway |
1,073 | Sunk |
| 15 July 1915 | HMT Agamemnon II | Royal Navy |
225 | Sunk |
| 30 July 1915 | Prince Albert | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
1,820 | Sunk |
| 31 July 1915 | Galicia |  United Kingdom |
5,922 | Damaged |
| 8 August 1915 | Ben Ardna | United Kingdom |
197 | Sunk |
| 14 August 1915 | Highland Corrie | United Kingdom |
7,583 | Damaged |
| 9 September 1915 | Balakani | United Kingdom |
3,696 | Sunk |
| 22 October 1915 | HMT Scott | Royal Navy |
288 | Sunk |
| 9 November 1915 | Irene |  United Kingdom |
543 | Sunk |
| 27 November 1915 | Klar | United Kingdom |
518 | Sunk |
| 3 December 1915 | Etoile Polaire | United Kingdom |
278 | Sunk |
| 24 December 1915 | HMT Carilon | Royal Navy |
226 | Sunk |
| 24 December 1915 | Embla | United Kingdom |
1,172 | Sunk |
| 18 January 1916 | Rijndam |  Netherlands |
12,527 | Damaged |
| 19 January 1916 | Leoville |  France |
775 | Sunk |
| 28 January 1916 | Perth | Norway |
3,522 | Damaged |
| 30 January 1916 | Maasdijk | Netherlands |
3,557 | Sunk |
| 11 February 1916 | Alabama | Norway |
891 | Sunk |
| 25 March 1916 | Duiveland | Netherlands |
1,297 | Sunk |
| 27 March 1916 | Empress of Midland | United Kingdom |
2,224 | Sunk |
| 4 April 1916 | Bendew | United Kingdom |
3,681 | Sunk |
| 12 April 1916 | Colombia | Netherlands |
5,644 | Damaged |
| 20 April 1916 | Lodewijk Van Nassau | Netherlands |
3,350 | Sunk |
| 2 May 1916 | Fridland |  Sweden |
4,960 | Damaged |
| 26 May 1916 | El Argentino | United Kingdom |
6,809 | Sunk |
| 18 June 1916 | Mendibil-mendi |  Spain |
4,501 | Sunk |
| 26 June 1916 | Astrologer | United Kingdom |
912 | Sunk |
| 26 June 1916 | HMT Tugela | Royal Navy |
233 | Sunk |
| 28 June 1916 | Mercurius | United Kingdom |
129 | Sunk |
| 30 June 1916 | HMT Whooper | Royal Navy |
302 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1916 | Alto | United Kingdom |
2,266 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1916 | Mopsa | United Kingdom |
885 | Sunk |
| 30 July 1916 | Claudia | United Kingdom |
1,144 | Sunk |
| 11 August 1916 | F. Stobart | United Kingdom |
801 | Sunk |
| 23 August 1916 | HMT Birch | Royal Navy |
215 | Sunk |
| 27 August 1916 | HMD Ocean Plough | Royal Navy |
99 | Sunk |
| 31 August 1916 | HMD Tuberose | Royal Navy |
67 | Sunk |
| 1 September 1916 | Dronning Maud | Norway |
1,102 | Sunk |
| 4 September 1916 | Jessie Nutten | United Kingdom |
187 | Sunk |
| 6 October 1916 | Lanterna | United Kingdom |
1,685 | Sunk |
| 8 November 1916 | HMS Zulu | Royal Navy |
1,027 | Sunk |
| 28 December 1916 | Torpilleur 317 |  French Navy |
100 | Sunk |
| 1 January 1917 | Sussex | United Kingdom |
5,686 | Damaged |
| 15 January 1917 | Port Nicholson | United Kingdom |
8,418 | Sunk |
| 11 May 1917 | HMT Bracklyn | Royal Navy |
303 | Sunk |
| 24 June 1917 | HMS Kempton | Royal Navy |
810 | Sunk |
| 24 June 1917 | HMS Redcar | Royal Navy |
810 | Sunk |
Notes
- ↑ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-1". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tarrant, p. 173.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Gardiner, p. 181.
- ↑ "Egon von Werner (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Kurt Ramien (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Heinrich Küstner". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Hugo Thielmann". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Oskar Steckelberg". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Walter Warzecha (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "Christian Mildenstein". uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ "SM UC-1 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
Bibliography
- Bendert, Harald (2001). Die UC-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine 1914-1918. Minenkrieg mit U-Booten (in German). Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler. ISBN 3-8132-0758-7.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. OCLC 12119866.
- Tarrant, V. E. (1989). The U-Boat Offensive: 1914–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-764-7. OCLC 20338385.
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