SM UC-13
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-13 |
| Ordered: | 23 November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen[2] |
| Yard number: | 227[2] |
| Laid down: | 28 January 1915[2] |
| Launched: | 11 May 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 15 May 1915[2] |
| Fate: | ran aground, 29 November 1915[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC I submarine |
| Displacement: | 168 t (185 short tons) surfaced[2] 182 t (201 short tons) submerged[2] |
| Length: | 33.99 m (111 ft 6.19 in) |
| Beam: | 3.15 m (10 ft 4.02 in)[2] |
| Draft: | 3.06 m (10 ft 0.47 in)[2] |
| Propulsion: | 1 × propeller shaft 1 × Benz 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine, 90 bhp (67 kW)[2] 1 × electric motor, 175 shp (130 kW)[2] |
| Speed: | 6.49 knots (12.02 km/h) surfaced[2] 5.67 knots (10.50 km/h) submerged[2] |
| Endurance: | 910 nautical miles (1,690 km; 1,050 mi) at 5 knots surfaced[2] (1,690 km at 9.3 km/h) 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) at 4 knots submerged[2] |
| Test depth: | 50 m (164 ft)[2] |
| Complement: | 1officer, 13 men[2] |
| Armament: | 6 × 100 cm (39 in) mine tubes[2] 12 × UC 120 mines[2] 1 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine gun[2] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Constantinople Flotilla 15 Jun 1915 - 29 Nov 1915 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Johannes Kirchner[3] 15 May 1915 - 29 Nov 1915 |
| Operations: | 3 patrols |
| Victories: |
3 merchant ships sunk (387 GRT) 1 warship damaged (1,280 tons) |
SM UC-13 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 28 January 1915, and was launched on 11 May 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 15 May 1915 as SM UC-13.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-13 in her 3 patrols were credited with sinking 3 ships.
Fate
UC-13 departed Constantinople on 12 November 1915 to operate in the Black Sea. On 29 November, while navigating using dead reckoning due to the adverse weather, she ran aground 55 nmi (102 km; 63 mi) east of the Bosphorous, near to the Melen River. The crew subsequently scuttled UC-13 using demolition charges before being picked up by Turkish vessels.[4]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[5] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 1915 | Sahina Noria | _crowned.svg.png){kind=small} Kingdom of Italy |
37 | Sunk |
| 22 November 1915 | Ukraina |  Russian Empire |
150 | Sunk |
| 22 November 1915 | Rostov |  Imperial Russian Navy |
1,280 | Damaged |
| 23 November 1915 | Marusja Raja | Russian Empire |
200 | 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 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-13". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 Gröner, Kriegsschiffe III, p57
- ↑ "Johannes Kirchner". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Messimer, Dwight R. (2002). Verschollen : World War I U-boat losses. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-475-3. OCLC 231973419.
- ↑ "SM UC-13 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
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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Coordinates: 41°09′N 30°30′E / 41.150°N 30.500°E