SM UC-6
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-6.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-6 |
| Ordered: | by November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
| Yard number: | 50[1] |
| Launched: | 20 June 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 24 June 1915[1] |
| Fate: | sunk by mine, 27 September 1917[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 Flotilla 31 Jul 1915 - 27 Sep 1917 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Matthias Graf von Schmettow[4] 24 Jun 1915 – 4 May 1916 Oblt Otto Ehrentraut[5] 5 May 1916 – 5 Sep 1916 Oblt Paul Günther[6] 6 Sep 1916 – 4 Nov 1916 Oblt Werner von Zerboni di Sposetti[7] 5 Nov 1916 – 30 Apr 1917 Oblt Werner Löwe[8] 1 May 1917 – 1 Sep 1917 Oblt Gottfried Reichenbach[9] 2 Sep 1917 – 27 Sep 1917 |
| Operations: | 89 patrols |
| Victories: |
36 merchant ships sunk (60,696 gross register tons (GRT)) 7 merchant ships damaged (32,726 GRT) 19 warships sunk (4,928 tons) 2 warships damaged (1,188 tons) |
SM UC-6 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 20 June 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 24 June 1915 as SM UC-6.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-6 in her 89 patrols were credited with sinking 54 ships.
Fate
UC-6 sailed from Zeebrugge on 27 September 1917 to lay mines off the Kentish Knock and did not return. It was later reported by British patrols that strong explosions had occurred in explosive nets laid in the area that same day. Other sources, however, state that UC-2 was destroyed by a British seaplane on 28 September 1917.[10]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[11] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 1915 | HMT Worsley |  Royal Navy |
309 | Sunk |
| 16 August 1915 | HMT Japan | Royal Navy |
205 | Sunk |
| 25 August 1915 | Disa |  Sweden |
788 | Sunk |
| 28 August 1915 | HMT Dane | Royal Navy |
265 | Sunk |
| 29 August 1915 | Sir William Stephenson |  United Kingdom |
1,540 | Sunk |
| 16 September 1915 | Africa | United Kingdom |
1,038 | Sunk |
| 18 September 1915 | HMT Lydian | Royal Navy |
244 | Sunk |
| 18 September 1915 | San Zeferino | United Kingdom |
6,430 | Damaged |
| 20 September 1915 | Horden | United Kingdom |
1,434 | Sunk |
| 23 September 1915 | Groningen | United Kingdom |
988 | Sunk |
| 24 September 1915 | HMD Great Heart | Royal Navy |
78 | Sunk |
| 27 September 1915 | Nigretia | United Kingdom |
3,187 | Damaged |
| 5 October 1915 | Alose |  French Navy |
214 | Sunk |
| 18 October 1915 | Aleppo | United Kingdom |
3,870 | Damaged |
| 18 October 1915 | Salerno |  Norway |
2,431 | Sunk |
| 21 October 1915 | Monitoria | United Kingdom |
1,904 | Sunk |
| 31 October 1915 | HMY Aries | Royal Navy |
268 | Sunk |
| 31 October 1915 | Eidsiva | Norway |
1,092 | Sunk |
| 31 October 1915 | HMT Othello II | Royal Navy |
206 | Sunk |
| 31 October 1915 | Toward | United Kingdom |
1,218 | Sunk |
| 3 November 1915 | Friargate | United Kingdom |
264 | Sunk |
| 12 November 1915 | Moorside | United Kingdom |
311 | Sunk |
| 12 November 1915 | Nigel | United Kingdom |
1,400 | Sunk |
| 12 January 1916 | Traquair | United Kingdom |
1,067 | Sunk |
| 12 February 1916 | Leicester | United Kingdom |
1,001 | Sunk |
| 21 February 1916 | HMT Carlton | Royal Navy |
267 | Sunk |
| 24 February 1916 | Trignac |  France |
2,375 | Sunk |
| 27 February 1916 | Empress of Fort William | United Kingdom |
2,181 | Sunk |
| 27 February 1916 | Maloja |  United Kingdom |
12,431 | Sunk |
| 28 February 1916 | HMT Angelus | Royal Navy |
304 | Sunk |
| 28 February 1916 | HMT Weigelia | Royal Navy |
262 | Sunk |
| 4 March 1916 | HMT Flicker | Royal Navy |
192 | Sunk |
| 23 March 1916 | HMT Corona | Royal Navy |
212 | Sunk |
| 23 March 1916 | Sea Serpent | United Kingdom |
902 | Sunk |
| 24 March 1916 | Christianssund |  Denmark |
1,017 | Sunk |
| 26 March 1916 | Saint Cecilia | United Kingdom |
4,411 | Sunk |
| 7 April 1916 | Halcyon | United Kingdom |
1,319 | Sunk |
| 14 April 1916 | Shenandoah | United Kingdom |
3,886 | Sunk |
| 21 April 1916 | Estafette | French Navy |
267 | Sunk |
| 29 April 1916 | Saint Corentin | French Navy |
216 | Sunk |
| 16 May 1916 | Batavier V |  Netherlands |
1,569 | Sunk |
| 26 May 1916 | Volharding | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
1,000 | Sunk |
| 1 June 1916 | Excellenz Mehnert | Norway |
646 | Sunk |
| 8 June 1916 | HMT Kaphreda | Royal Navy |
245 | Sunk |
| 19 June 1916 | Corton Light Vessel | United Kingdom |
unknown | Sunk |
| 19 June 1916 | Saint Jacques | France |
72 | Sunk |
| 21 June 1916 | Otis Tarda | Netherlands |
759 | Sunk |
| 23 June 1916 | Burma | United Kingdom |
706 | Sunk |
| 27 June 1916 | Waalstroom | Netherlands |
1,441 | Sunk |
| 29 June 1916 | HMT Hirose | Royal Navy |
275 | Sunk |
| 7 July 1916 | Gannet | United Kingdom |
1,127 | Sunk |
| 10 July 1916 | Kara | United Kingdom |
2,338 | Sunk |
| 3 September 1916 | Mascotte | United Kingdom |
1,097 | Sunk |
| 2 October 1916 | Girl Eva | United Kingdom |
76 | Sunk |
| 29 December 1916 | Lonada | United Kingdom |
1,286 | Sunk |
| 29 December 1916 | HMPMS Ludlow | Royal Navy |
810 | Sunk |
| 29 December 1916 | HMS Totnes | Royal Navy |
810 | Damaged |
| 22 February 1917 | Ashtabula | United Kingdom |
7,025 | Damaged |
| 31 March 1917 | HMD Forward III | Royal Navy |
89 | Sunk |
| 19 April 1917 | Lumina | United Kingdom |
5,856 | Damaged |
| 12 May 1917 | Waterville | United Kingdom |
1,968 | Damaged |
| 7 June 1917 | HMPMS Mercury | Royal Navy |
378 | Damaged |
| 16 June 1917 | Roald Amundsen | Norway |
4,390 | Damaged |
| 18 June 1917 | Dorte Jensen | Denmark |
2,086 | 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 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-6". 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.
- ↑ "Matthias Graf von Schmettow (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Otto Ehrentraut". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Paul Günther". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Werner von Zerboni di Sposetti". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Werner Löwe". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Gottfried Reichenbach". uboat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ Messimer, Dwight R. (2002). Verschollen : World War I U-boat losses. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-1-55750-475-3. OCLC 231973419.
- ↑ "SM UC-6 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
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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