SM UC-49
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-49.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-49 |
| Ordered: | 12 January 1916[1] |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel[2] |
| Yard number: | 265[1] |
| Launched: | 7 November 1916[1] |
| Commissioned: | 2 December 1916[1] |
| Fate: | depth charged by HMS Opossum, 8 August 1918[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
| Displacement: | 434 t (478 short tons), surfaced[2] 511 t (563 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 172 ft 11 in (52.71 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: | 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h), surfaced[2] 7.2 knots (13.3 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 8,820 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (16,330 km at 13 km/h) 56 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (104 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: | 30-second diving time[2] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
I Flotilla 1 Mar 1917 - 22 May 1918 Flandern Flotilla 22 May 1918 - 8 Aug 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Karl Petri[4] 2 Dec 1916 - 21 Apr 1917 Oblt Alfred Arnold[5] 22 Apr 1917 - 17 May 1917 Kptlt Karl Petri[4] 18 May 1917 - 2 Nov 1917 Oblt Hans Kükenthal[6] 3 Nov 1917 - 8 Aug 1918 |
| Operations: | 13 patrols |
| Victories: |
20 merchant ships sunk (30,590 GRT) 2 merchant ships damaged (7,516 GRT) 5 warships sunk (28,317 tons) |
SM UC-49 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 7 November 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 2 December 1916 as SM UC-49.[Note 1] In 13 patrols UC-49 was credited with sinking 24 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-49 was sunk by depth charges from British destroyer Opossum off Start Point on 8 August 1918.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 1917 | Helge |  Denmark |
162 | Sunk |
| 7 May 1917 | Tore Jarl |  Norway |
1,256 | Sunk |
| 9 May 1917 | Windward Ho |  United Kingdom |
226 | Sunk |
| 14 May 1917 | Bel Lily | United Kingdom |
168 | Sunk |
| 17 June 1917 | Tosto | Norway |
1,234 | Sunk |
| 22 July 1917 | Cotovia | United Kingdom |
4,020 | Sunk |
| 23 July 1917 | Otway |  Royal Navy |
12,077 | Sunk |
| 24 July 1917 | Blake | United Kingdom |
3,740 | Sunk |
| 25 July 1917 | Dea | Norway |
1,109 | Sunk |
| 25 August 1917 | Nascent | United Kingdom |
4,969 | Sunk |
| 2 September 1917 | Dundee | Royal Navy |
2,187 | Sunk |
| 21 October 1917 | Bunty | United Kingdom |
73 | Sunk |
| 8 December 1917 | Maindy Bridge | United Kingdom |
3,653 | Sunk |
| 3 January 1918 | HMW Blackwhale | Royal Navy |
237 | Sunk |
| 24 January 1918 | Fylgia |  Sweden |
1,741 | Sunk |
| 24 January 1918 | Jönköping 2 | Sweden |
1,274 | Sunk |
| 9 February 1918 | Maggie Smith | United Kingdom |
24 | Sunk |
| 21 February 1918 | Bør | Norway |
1,149 | Sunk |
| 21 February 1918 | Reaper | United Kingdom |
91 | Sunk |
| 24 February 1918 | Amsterdam | United Kingdom |
806 | Sunk |
| 1 May 1918 | Samsö | Denmark |
324 | Sunk |
| 10 June 1918 | Mountby | United Kingdom |
3,263 | Sunk |
| 13 June 1918 | HMS Patia | Royal Navy |
6,103 | Sunk |
| 22 June 1918 | Rhea | United Kingdom |
1,308 | Sunk |
| 3 August 1918 | Warilda | Royal Navy |
7,713 | Sunk |
| 5 August 1918 | Tuscan Prince | United Kingdom |
5,275 | Damaged |
| 8 August 1918 | Portwood | United Kingdom |
2,241 | 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-49". 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Karl Petri". Uboat.net. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ↑ "Alfred Arnold". Uboat.net. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ↑ "Hans Kükenthal". Uboat.net. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ↑ "SM UC-49 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 25 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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