SM UC-58
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-58.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-58 |
| Ordered: | 12 January 1916[1] |
| Builder: | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig[2] |
| Yard number: | 40[1] |
| Laid down: | 18 March 1916[1] |
| Launched: | 21 October 1916[1] |
| Commissioned: | 12 March 1917[1] |
| Fate: | surrendered, November 1918; broken up, 1921[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
| Displacement: | 415 t (457 short tons), surfaced[2] 498 t (549 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 165 ft 9 in (50.52 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: | 11.6 knots (21.5 km/h), surfaced[2] 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 8,660 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (16,040 km at 13 km/h) 52 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (96 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: |
Baltic Flotilla 9 May 1917 - 11 Dec 1917 I Flotilla 11 Dec 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt Karl Vesper[4] 12 Mar 1917 - 11 Dec 1917 Kptlt Kurt Schwarz[5] 11 Dec 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 |
| Operations: | 12 patrols |
| Victories: |
20 merchant ships sunk (21,030 GRT) 1 merchant ship damaged (4,125 GRT) 3 merchant ships captured as prizes (2,716 GRT) 4 warships sunk (463 tons) |
SM UC-58 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 12 January 1916, laid down on 18 March 1916, and was launched on 21 October 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 12 March 1917 as SM UC-58.[Note 1] In 12 patrols UC-58 was credited with sinking 24 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-58 was surrendered on 24 November 1918 and broken up at Cherbourg in 1921.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1917 | Erik |  Sweden |
785 | Sunk |
| 19 May 1917 | Göta | Sweden |
1,128 | Captured as a prize |
| 19 May 1917 | Kjell | Sweden |
235 | Sunk |
| 19 May 1917 | Kyros | Sweden |
221 | Sunk |
| 19 May 1917 | Lizzie | Sweden |
1,095 | Captured as a prize |
| 19 May 1917 | Märta | Sweden |
493 | Captured as a prize |
| 19 May 1917 | Olga | Sweden |
83 | Sunk |
| 19 May 1917 | Pauline | Sweden |
168 | Sunk |
| 19 May 1917 | Therese | Sweden |
208 | Sunk |
| 3 June 1917 | Sten II |  Russian Empire |
227 | Sunk |
| 6 June 1917 | Edvard | Sweden |
98 | Sunk |
| 6 June 1917 | Elianna | Sweden |
75 | Sunk |
| 11 June 1917 | August | Sweden |
120 | Sunk |
| 15 June 1917 | Cleo | Sweden |
92 | Sunk |
| 7 July 1917 | MT 11 |  Imperial Russian Navy |
29 | Sunk |
| 7 July 1917 | MT 14 | Imperial Russian Navy |
29 | Sunk |
| 14 July 1917 | Bonus |  Finland |
111 | Sunk |
| 10 September 1917 | Sims | Russian Empire |
unknown | Sunk |
| 27 November 1917 | Bditelnyi | Imperial Russian Navy |
380 | Sunk |
| 30 November 1917 | MT 1 | Imperial Russian Navy |
25 | Sunk |
| 29 December 1917 | Ennismore |  United Kingdom |
1,499 | Sunk |
| 1 January 1918 | Eriksholm | Sweden |
2,632 | Sunk |
| 12 January 1918 | Adolph Meyer | Sweden |
807 | Sunk |
| 11 February 1918 | Baku Standard | United Kingdom |
3,708 | Sunk |
| 12 February 1918 | St. Magnus | United Kingdom |
809 | Sunk |
| 13 February 1918 | Lackawanna | United Kingdom |
4,125 | Damaged |
| 18 May 1918 | William Rockefeller |  United States Navy |
7,175 | Sunk |
| 28 June 1918 | Pochard | United Kingdom |
146 | Sunk |
| 17 September 1918 | Muriel | United Kingdom |
1,831 | 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 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-58". 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.
- ↑ "Karl Vesper (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ↑ "Kurt Schwarz". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ↑ "SM UC-58 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 2 March 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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