SM UC-37
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-37.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
| Name: | UC-37 |
| Ordered: | 20 November 1915[1] |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[2] |
| Yard number: | 278[1] |
| Launched: | 5 June 1916[1] |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1916[1] |
| Fate: | surrendered, November 1918; broken up, 1920[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type UC II submarine |
| Displacement: | 427 t (471 short tons), surfaced[2] 509 t (561 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 165 ft 2 in (50.34 m)[2] |
| Beam: | 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)[2] |
| Draft: | 12 ft 2 in (4 m)[3] |
| Propulsion: | 2 × propeller shafts 2 × 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engines, 500 bhp (370 kW)[3] 2 × electric motors, 460 shp (340 kW)[3] |
| Speed: | 11.9 knots (22.0 km/h), surfaced[2] 6.8 knots (12.6 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 10,180 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (18,850 km at 13 km/h) 54 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (100 km at 7.4 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft)[3] |
| Complement: | 26[3] |
| Armament: | 6 × 100 cm (39.4 in) mine tubes[3] 18 × UC 200 mines 3 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 bow/external; one stern) 7 × torpedoes 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) KL/30 deck gun[2] |
| Notes: | 35-second diving time[2] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Pola Flotilla 12 Jan 1917 - 18 Jul 1918 Constantinople Flotilla 18 Jul 1918 - 14 Nov 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Otto Launburg[4] 13 Oct 1916 - 1 Jul 1917 Oblt Willy List[5] 2 Jul 1917 - 9 Jan 1918 Oblt Otto Kümpel[6] 10 Jan 1918 - 11 Nov 1918 |
| Operations: | 13 patrols |
| Victories: |
63 merchant ships sunk (73,525 GRT) 5 merchant ships damaged (20,829 GRT) 3 warships sunk (12,480 tons) 1 warship damaged (7,350 tons) |
SM UC-37 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 20 November 1915 and was launched on 5 June 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 17 October 1916 as SM UC-37.[Note 1] In 13 patrols UC-37 was credited with sinking 66 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-37 was surrendered at Sevastopol on 25 November 1918 and broken up at Bizerta in August 1921.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 1917 | Britannic |  Norway |
2,289 | Sunk |
| 2 January 1917 | Aristotelis C. Ioannou | .svg.png){kind=small} Greece |
2,868 | Sunk |
| 2 January 1917 | Dimitrios Goulandris | Greece |
3,744 | Sunk |
| 2 January 1917 | Notre Dame Du Verger |  France |
227 | Sunk |
| 3 January 1917 | Capricieuse | France |
156 | Sunk |
| 3 January 1917 | Fama | Norway |
2,417 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1917 | Liberte | France |
166 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1917 | Luigi Ciampa | _crowned.svg.png){kind=small} Kingdom of Italy |
3,988 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1917 | Seemel |  Russian Empire |
209 | Sunk |
| 4 January 1917 | Wragby |  United Kingdom |
3,641 | Sunk |
| 5 January 1917 | Combermere | Kingdom of Italy |
1,718 | Sunk |
| 26 February 1917 | Gerolamo Ulloa | Kingdom of Italy |
4,283 | Damaged |
| 26 February 1917 | Victoria | Greece |
1,388 | Sunk |
| 3 March 1917 | Craigendoran | United Kingdom |
2,789 | Sunk |
| 5 March 1917 | Salvatore | Kingdom of Italy |
119 | Sunk |
| 27 March 1917 | Nr. 62 |  French Navy |
200 | Sunk |
| 31 March 1917 | Galatee | France |
3,062 | Damaged |
| 3 April 1917 | Ernest Simons | France |
5,555 | Sunk |
| 3 April 1917 | Saint Simon | France |
3,419 | Sunk |
| 4 April 1917 | San Giovanni Battiste | Kingdom of Italy |
46 | Sunk |
| 14 April 1917 | Gange | French Navy |
6,886 | Sunk |
| 16 April 1917 | Sagres |  Portugal |
2,986 | Sunk |
| 21 April 1917 | Warrior | United Kingdom |
3,674 | Sunk |
| 28 April 1917 | Niobe | Kingdom of Italy |
66 | Sunk |
| 29 April 1917 | Giuseppe Maria | Kingdom of Italy |
99 | Sunk |
| 30 April 1917 | Colbert | French Navy |
5,394 | Sunk |
| 2 May 1917 | Camerata | United Kingdom |
3,723 | Damaged |
| 5 May 1917 | Dina Di Lozenzo | Kingdom of Italy |
127 | Sunk |
| 5 May 1917 | Harmattan | United Kingdom |
4,792 | Sunk |
| 15 June 1917 | Assunzione | Kingdom of Italy |
3,770 | Sunk |
| 8 August 1917 | Breton | France |
3,739 | Sunk |
| 11 October 1917 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | 14 | Sunk | |
| 31 October 1917 | Evangelistria | Greece |
17 | Sunk |
| 1 November 1917 | Marigo | Kingdom of Italy |
24 | Sunk |
| 3 November 1917 | A.S. 160 | Greece |
20 | Sunk |
| 3 November 1917 | Essichia | Greece |
30 | Sunk |
| 5 November 1917 | Caterina | Kingdom of Italy |
30 | Sunk |
| 23 December 1917 | Dunedin | United Kingdom |
4,796 | Damaged |
| 12 February 1918 | Aghios Nicolaos | Greece |
20 | Sunk |
| 14 February 1918 | Ventmoor | United Kingdom |
3,456 | Sunk |
| 15 February 1918 | San Rito | United Kingdom |
3,310 | Sunk |
| 17 March 1918 | Waihemo | United Kingdom |
4,283 | Sunk |
| 21 March 1918 | Termini | Kingdom of Italy |
1,523 | Sunk |
| 25 March 1918 | Warturm |  United Kingdom |
4,965 | Damaged |
| 26 March 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
31 | Sunk |
| 26 March 1918 | Unidentified sailing vessel | Greece |
15 | Sunk |
| 26 March 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
15 | Sunk |
| 29 March 1918 | Porto Santo | Portugal |
2,801 | Sunk |
| 8 July 1918 | San Nicola | Greece |
50 | Sunk |
| 14 July 1918 | Hagios Zion | Greece |
4 | Sunk |
| 15 July 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
2 | Sunk |
| 15 July 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
14 | Sunk |
| 17 July 1918 | Unidentified Sailing vessel | Greece |
35 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | Marie Suzanne | United Kingdom |
3,106 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
58 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | NN155a | Greece |
30 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | S919a | Greece |
80 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | SS165 | Greece |
65 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | V108a | Greece |
60 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | V135 | Greece |
20 | Sunk |
| 19 August 1918 | V62a | Greece |
30 | Sunk |
| 24 August 1918 | AS19 | Greece |
35 | Sunk |
| 24 August 1918 | S275 | Greece |
35 | Sunk |
| 24 August 1918 | A59a | Greece |
35 | Sunk |
| 26 August 1918 | Evangtelistria | Greece |
20 | Sunk |
| 27 August 1918 | Unidentified Sailing Vessel | Greece |
31 | Sunk |
| 27 August 1918 | C57a | Greece |
14 | Sunk |
| 28 August 1918 | V214a | Greece |
12 | Sunk |
| 28 August 1918 | S804qu | Greece |
53 | Sunk |
| 29 August 1918 | A56a | Greece |
31 | Sunk |
| 29 August 1918 | 121B | Greece |
124 | Sunk |
| 30 August 1918 | HMS Endymion |  Royal Navy |
7,350 | Damaged |
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-37". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Tarrant, p. 173.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Gardiner, p. 182.
- ↑ "Otto Launburg (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "Willy List". Uboat.net. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "Otto Kümpel". Uboat.net. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "SM UC-37 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 22 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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