SM UC-3
"UC3" redirects here. For the Danish submarine, see UC3 Nautilus.
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-3.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-3 |
| Ordered: | by November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
| Yard number: | 47[1] |
| Launched: | 28 May 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 1 June 1915[1] |
| Fate: | sunk by mine, 27 May 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 | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Imperial German Navy: Flandern Flottilla 30 Jun 1915 - 27 May 1916 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Erwin Weisbach[4] 1 Jun 1915 – 26 Sep 1915 Oblt Erwin Waßner[5] 27 Sep 1915 – 12 May 1916 Oblt Günther Kreysern[6] 13 May 1916 – 27 May 1916 |
| Operations: | 29 patrols |
| Victories: |
16 merchant ships sunk (28,483 gross register tons (GRT)) 2 merchant ships damaged (1,909 GRT) 6 warships sunk (2,109 tons) |
SM UC-3 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 28 May 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 1 June 1915 as SM UC-3.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-3 in her 29 patrols were credited with sinking 22 ships and damaging 2 others. UC-3 was mined and sunk on 27 May 1916.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 1915 | Peik |  Norway |
1,168 | Sunk |
| 14 July 1915 | Vivid | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
150 | Sunk |
| 20 July 1915 | HMY Rhiannon |  Royal Navy |
137 | Sunk |
| 21 July 1915 | HMT Briton | Royal Navy |
196 | Sunk |
| 12 September 1915 | Ashmore |  United Kingdom |
2,519 | Sunk |
| 14 October 1915 | Salerno | United Kingdom |
2,071 | Sunk |
| 16 October 1915 | Volscian | United Kingdom |
570 | Damaged |
| 17 October 1915 | HMT Javelin | Royal Navy |
205 | Sunk |
| 25 October 1915 | Selma | Norway |
1,654 | Sunk |
| 6 November 1915 | Alastair | United Kingdom |
366 | Sunk |
| 11 November 1915 | Rhineland | United Kingdom |
1,501 | Sunk |
| 17 November 1915 | Ulriken | Norway |
2,379 | Sunk |
| 29 November 1915 | HMS Duchess of Hamilton | Royal Navy |
553 | Sunk |
| 10 December 1915 | Nereus | Norway |
742 | Sunk |
| 11 December 1915 | Pinegrove | United Kingdom |
2,847 | Sunk |
| 18 December 1915 | Nico | Norway |
712 | Sunk |
| 21 December 1915 | HMS Lady Ismay | Royal Navy |
495 | Sunk |
| 27 December 1915 | Hadley | United Kingdom |
1,777 | Sunk |
| 14 January 1916 | Breslau | United Kingdom |
1,339 | Damaged |
| 18 January 1916 | Auvergne |  French Navy |
523 | Sunk |
| 8 February 1916 | Argo | United Kingdom |
1,720 | Sunk |
| 28 February 1916 | Thornaby | United Kingdom |
1,782 | Sunk |
| 26 May 1916 | Denewood | United Kingdom |
1,221 | Sunk |
| 3 June 1916 | Golconda | United Kingdom |
5,874 | Sunk |
Notes
- ↑ "SM" stands for Seiner Majestäts (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the "U" for Unterseeboot translates as "His Majesty's Submarine".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2009). "WWI U-boats: UC-3". 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.
- ↑ "Erwin Weisbach". uboat.net. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "Erwin Waßner (Pour le Mérite)". uboat.net. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "Günther Kreysern". uboat.net. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "SM UC-3 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
References
- 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°35′N 3°8′W / 51.583°N 3.133°W
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