SM UC-10
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-10.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-10 |
| Ordered: | 14 November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
| Yard number: | 54[1] |
| Launched: | 15 July 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 17 July 1915[1] |
| Fate: | sunk by HMS E54, 21 August 1916[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[4] | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Flandern Flotilla 19 Dec 1915 – 21 Aug 1916 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Ernst Rosenow 17 Jul 1915 - 3 Nov 1915 Oblt Max Viebeg 4 Nov 1915 - 8 Dec 1915 Oblt Alfred Nitzsche 9 Dec 1915 – 13 Jun 1916 Oblt Reinhold Saltzwedel 14 Jun 1916 - 26 Jun 1916 Oblt Werner Albrecht 27 Jun 1916 - 21 Aug 1916 |
| Operations: | 30 patrols |
| Victories: |
17 merchant ships sunk (30,669 GRT) 5 merchant ships damaged (16,627 GRT) 1 warship sunk (335 tons) |
SM UC-10 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 was ordered on 14 November 1914 and was launched on 15 July 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 17 July 1915 as SM UC-10.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-10 in her 30 patrols were credited with sinking 17 ships. UC-10 was torpedoed and sunk on 21 August 1916 by British submarine E54 at position 52°02′N 03°54′E / 52.033°N 3.900°ECoordinates: 52°02′N 03°54′E / 52.033°N 3.900°E.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[5] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 December 1915 | Ellewoutsdijk |  Netherlands |
2,229 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1916 | Leto | Netherlands |
3,225 | Sunk |
| 5 January 1916 | Fridtjof Nansen |  Norway |
3,275 | Sunk |
| 21 January 1916 | Apollo | Netherlands |
799 | Sunk |
| 22 January 1916 | Falls City |  United Kingdom |
4,729 | Damaged |
| 25 February 1916 | Southford | United Kingdom |
963 | Sunk |
| 26 February 1916 | Birgit |  Sweden |
1,117 | Sunk |
| 29 February 1916 | Malvina | United Kingdom |
1,244 | Damaged |
| 7 March 1916 | HMS Coquette |  Royal Navy |
335 | Sunk |
| 7 March 1916 | TB. 11 | United Kingdom |
263 | Sunk |
| 11 March 1916 | Zaandijk | Netherlands |
4,189 | Damaged |
| 18 March 1916 | Palembang | Netherlands |
6,674 | Sunk |
| 3 April 1916 | Ino | Norway |
702 | Sunk |
| 26 April 1916 | Dubhe | Netherlands |
3,233 | Damaged |
| 26 April 1916 | Noordzee | Netherlands |
298 | Sunk |
| 1 May 1916 | Hendon Hall | United Kingdom |
3,994 | Sunk |
| 2 May 1916 | Rochester City | United Kingdom |
1,239 | Sunk |
| 22 May 1916 | Rhenass | United Kingdom |
285 | Sunk |
| 27 May 1916 | Lincairn | United Kingdom |
3,638 | Sunk |
| 1 June 1916 | Parkgate | United Kingdom |
3,232 | Damaged |
| 20 August 1916 | Dragoon | United Kingdom |
30 | Sunk |
| 3 September 1916 | Rievaulx Abbey | United Kingdom |
1,166 | Sunk |
| 11 December 1916 | Nora |  Denmark |
772 | 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-10". 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.
- ↑ "The Type UC I boat SM UC-10 - German U-boats of WWI - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ↑ "SM UC-10 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 13 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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