SM UC-44
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-44.
Career (German Empire) | ![]() |
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Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
Name: | UC-44 |
Ordered: | 20 November 1915[1] |
Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
Yard number: | 77[1] |
Launched: | 10 October 1917[1] |
Commissioned: | 4 November 1916[1] |
Fate: | sunk by own mine, 4 August 1917[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Type UC II submarine |
Displacement: | 400 t (440 short tons), surfaced[2] 480 t (530 short tons), submerged |
Length: | 162 ft 3 in (49.45 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: | 11.7 knots (21.7 km/h), surfaced[2] 6.7 knots (12.4 km/h), submerged |
Endurance: | 9,410 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (17,430 km at 13 km/h) 60 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (110 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: | 48-second diving time[2] |
Service record | |
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Part of: |
I Flotilla 1 Jan 1917 - 4 Aug 1917 |
Commanders: |
Kptlt Kurt Tebbenjohanns[4] 4 Nov 1916 - 4 Aug 1917 |
Operations: | 6 patrols |
Victories: |
28 merchant ships sunk (25,709 GRT) 1 merchant ship taken as a prize (229 GRT) 1 warship sunk (550 tons) 2 warship damaged (1,250 tons) |
SM UC-44 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 10 October 1917. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 4 November 1916 as SM UC-44.[Note 1] In 6 patrols UC-44 was credited with sinking 29 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-44 was sunk by the detonation of one of her own mines off the Irish coast at position 52°07′N 6°59′W / 52.117°N 6.983°WCoordinates: 52°07′N 6°59′W / 52.117°N 6.983°W on 4 August 1917. UC-44 's wreck was raised by the Royal Navy in September 1917 and later broken up.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[5] |
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11 February 1917 | Ashwold | ![]() |
129 | Sunk |
12 February 1917 | Adolf | ![]() |
835 | Sunk |
12 February 1917 | Dale | ![]() |
198 | Sunk |
13 February 1917 | King Alfred | ![]() |
159 | Sunk |
14 February 1917 | Belvoir Castle | ![]() |
221 | Sunk |
14 February 1917 | Mary Bell | ![]() |
144 | Sunk |
5 March 1917 | Guadiana | ![]() |
326 | Sunk |
7 March 1917 | Adalands | ![]() |
1,577 | Sunk |
7 March 1917 | Westwick | ![]() |
5,694 | Sunk |
9 March 1917 | HMS Albacore | ![]() |
440 | Damaged |
12 March 1917 | Lucy Anderson | ![]() |
1,073 | Sunk |
12 March 1917 | Marna | ![]() |
914 | Sunk |
13 March 1917 | Navenby | ![]() |
167 | Sunk |
13 March 1917 | Nuttallia | ![]() |
229 | Captured as a prize |
28 March 1917 | Ruby | ![]() |
234 | Sunk |
13 April 1917 | Bandon | ![]() |
1,456 | Sunk |
15 April 1917 | Dalmatian | ![]() |
186 | Sunk |
15 April 1917 | Heikina | ![]() |
157 | Sunk |
15 April 1917 | Sutterton | ![]() |
160 | Sunk |
19 April 1917 | Poltava | ![]() |
945 | Sunk |
20 April 1917 | Erith | ![]() |
168 | Sunk |
20 April 1917 | Grecian | ![]() |
119 | Sunk |
21 April 1917 | Peik | ![]() |
701 | Sunk |
22 April 1917 | Nightingale | ![]() |
91 | Sunk |
23 April 1917 | Auriac | ![]() |
871 | Sunk |
23 April 1917 | Baron Stjernblad | ![]() |
991 | Sunk |
23 April 1917 | Scot | ![]() |
1,564 | Sunk |
28 May 1917 | Turid | ![]() |
1,148 | Sunk |
30 June 1917 | Asalia | ![]() |
2,348 | Sunk |
30 June 1917 | Phoebus | ![]() |
3,133 | Sunk |
6 July 1917 | HMS Itchen | ![]() |
550 | Sunk |
7 August 1917 | HMS Haldon | ![]() |
810 | 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-44". 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.
- ↑ "Kurt Tebbenjohanns". Uboat.net. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "SM UC-44 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 23 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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