SM UC-11

For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-11.
Career (German Empire)
Name: UC-11
Ordered: 23 November 1914[1]
Builder: AG Weser, Bremen[2]
Yard number: 225[1]
Laid down: 26 January 1915[1]
Launched: 11 April 1915[1]
Commissioned: 23 April 1915[1]
Fate: sunk by mine, 26 June 1918[1]
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 at 5 knots, surfaced[3]
(1,690 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
26 May 1915 – 17 Oct 1915
Training Flotilla
17 Oct 1915 – 11 Aug 1916
Flandern Flotilla
11 Aug 1916 – 26 Jun 1918
Commanders: Oblt Walter Gottfried Schmidt[5]
23 Apr 1915 - 11 Aug 1916
Oblt Reinhold Saltzwedel [6]
12 Aug 1916 - 20 Aug 1916
Oblt Max Schmitz[7]
21 Aug 1916 – 1 Dec 1916
Oblt Benno von Ditfurth[8]
2 Dec 1916 - 29 Jun 1917
Oblt Georg Niemeyer[9]
30 Jun 1917 - 19 Jul 1917
Oblt Benno von Ditfurth[10]
20 Jul 1917 - 5 Aug 1917
Oblt Karl Dobberstein[11]
6 Aug 1917 - 16 Nov 1917
Oblt Ferdinand Schwartz[12]
17 Nov 1917 - 10 Feb 1918
Oblt Reinhold Thomsen[13]
11 Feb 1918 - 4 Apr 1918
Oblt Werner Lange[14]
5 Apr 1918 - 16 Jun 1918
Oblt Kurt Utke[15]
17 Jun 1918 - 26 Jun 1918
Operations: 83 patrols
Victories: 27 merchant ships sunk (33,708 GRT)
1 merchant ship damaged (378 GRT)
2 warships damaged (5,084 tons)

SM UC-11 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 23 November 1914, laid down on 26 January 1915, and was launched on 11 April 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 23 April 1915 as SM UC-11.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-11 in her 83 patrols were credited with sinking 27 ships. UC-11 was mined and sunk on 26 June 1918.[1] A crew member was Rudolf Finkler from Oberlinxweiler, Kreis St. Wendel, Germany. According to his death record the boat went down in the North Sea near Harwich, abt. 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) north east of „Funk Feuerschiff“ on position 51°55′N 1°41′E / 51.917°N 1.683°E.

Summary of Raiding Career

Date Name Nationality Tonnage
(GRT)		 Fate[16]
1 June 1915 HMS Mohawk  Royal Navy 865 Damaged
9 June 1915 Erna Boldt  United Kingdom 1,731 Sunk
9 June 1915 Lady Salisbury  United Kingdom 1,446 Sunk
10 June 1915 TB 10  United Kingdom 255 Sunk
10 June 1915 TB 12  United Kingdom 255 Sunk
15 June 1915 Argyll  United Kingdom 280 Sunk
20 October 1916 Huguenot  United Kingdom 1,032 Sunk
24 October 1916 Framfield  United Kingdom 2,510 Sunk
26 October 1916 Lord Roberts  United Kingdom 293 Sunk
21 November 1916 Helena  Netherlands 1,798 Sunk
29 November 1916 Lord Airedale  United Kingdom 215 Sunk
9 December 1916 Forth  United Kingdom 1,159 Sunk
9 December 1916 Harlington  United Kingdom 1,089 Sunk
9 December 1916 Harlyn  United Kingdom 1,794 Sunk
17 December 1916 Michail Ontchoukoff  Denmark 2,118 Sunk
29 December 1916 Zoroaster  United Kingdom 3,803 Sunk
8 January 1917 Cape Colony  United Kingdom 82 Sunk
2 February 1917 Holdene  United Kingdom 274 Sunk
12 February 1917 Foreland  United Kingdom 1,960 Sunk
14 February 1917 Marie Leonhardt  United Kingdom 1,466 Sunk
26 April 1917 Mercury  United Kingdom 378 Damaged
27 April 1917 Agile  United Kingdom 246 Sunk
24 September 1917 Hastfen  United Kingdom 77 Sunk
25 October 1917 Wearside  United Kingdom 3,560 Sunk
27 October 1917 Strymon  United Kingdom 198 Sunk
24 November 1917 French Rose  United Kingdom 465 Sunk
25 November 1917 Ostpreussen  United Kingdom 1,779 Sunk
27 November 1917 Groeswen  United Kingdom 3,570 Sunk
16 January 1918 John E. Lewis  United Kingdom 253 Sunk
13 June 1918 HMS Conquest  Royal Navy 4,219 Damaged

Notes

  1. ↑ "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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-11". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tarrant, p. 173.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Gardiner, p. 181.
  4. ↑ "The Type UC I boat SM UC-11 - German U-boats of WWI - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Walter Gottfried Schmidt". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Reinhold Saltzwedel (Pour le Mérite)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Max Schmitz". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Benno von Ditfurth". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Georg Niemeyer". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Benno von Ditfurth". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  11. ↑ "Karl Dobberstein". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Ferdinand Schwartz". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "Reinhold Thomsen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Werner Lange". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "Kurt Utke". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "SM UC-11 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

Bibliography

  • 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.


Coordinates: 51°55′N 1°41′E / 51.917°N 1.683°E