SM UC-64
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-64.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-64 |
| Ordered: | 12 January 1916[1] |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen[2] |
| Yard number: | 262[1] |
| Laid down: | 3 April 1916[1] |
| Launched: | 23 January 1917[1] |
| Commissioned: | 22 February 1917[1] |
| Fate: | sunk by mine, 20 June 1918[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
| Displacement: | 422 t (465 short tons), surfaced[2] 504 t (556 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 170 ft 1 in (51.84 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] 7.2 knots (13.3 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 8,000 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (15,000 km at 13 km/h) 59 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (109 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: |
Imperial German Navy: Flandern Flotilla 13 May 1917 - 20 Jun 1918 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Ernst Müller-Schwarz[4] 22 Feb 1917 - 12 Sep 1917 Oblt Erich Hecht[5] 13 Sep 1917 - 22 Feb 1918 Oblt Ferdinand Schwartz[6] 23 Feb 1918 - 20 Jun 1918 |
| Operations: | 15 patrols |
| Victories: |
26 merchant ships sunk (20,072 gross register tons (GRT)) 4 merchant ships damaged (14,012 GRT) 1 warship sunk (401 tons) |
SM UC-64 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 3 April 1916, and was launched on 23 January 1917. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 22 February 1917 as SM UC-64.[Note 1] In 15 patrols UC-64 was credited with sinking 25 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-64 was mined and sunk in the Dover Strait on 20 June 1918.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 1917 | Voorwaarts |  Netherlands |
114 | Sunk |
| 23 May 1917 | Alberdina | Netherlands |
100 | Sunk |
| 21 June 1917 | Hendrika | Netherlands |
109 | Sunk |
| 24 June 1917 | Telegraaf XVIII | Netherlands |
306 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1917 | Timor | Netherlands |
135 | Sunk |
| 17 August 1917 | Esperance |  France |
97 | Sunk |
| 16 September 1917 | Eendracht VII | Netherlands |
251 | Sunk |
| 17 September 1917 | Paraciers | France |
2,542 | Sunk |
| 22 September 1917 | Ville De Valenciennes | France |
1,734 | Sunk |
| 18 October 1917 | Altair |  Norway |
1,674 | Sunk |
| 18 October 1917 | Sten |  United Kingdom |
928 | Sunk |
| 16 November 1917 | Jules Verne | France |
157 | Sunk |
| 27 November 1917 | Ville De Thann | France |
1,416 | Sunk |
| 4 December 1917 | Manchester Mariner | United Kingdom |
4,106 | Damaged |
| 14 December 1917 | Volnay | United Kingdom |
4,610 | Sunk |
| 19 December 1917 | Borgsten | Norway |
1,718 | Sunk |
| 19 December 1917 | Trevelyan | United Kingdom |
3,066 | Damaged |
| 23 December 1917 | Manicia | Norway |
1,868 | Damaged |
| 20 January 1918 | Queen Margaret | United Kingdom |
4,972 | Damaged |
| 26 January 1918 | May | United Kingdom |
24 | Sunk |
| 26 January 1918 | Rob Roy | United Kingdom |
112 | Sunk |
| 28 March 1918 | Botha | United Kingdom |
17 | Sunk |
| 28 March 1918 | Brotherly Love | United Kingdom |
19 | Sunk |
| 28 March 1918 | Honora | United Kingdom |
29 | Sunk |
| 28 March 1918 | Noel | United Kingdom |
21 | Sunk |
| 31 March 1918 | HMT Vianna |  Royal Navy |
401 | Sunk |
| 23 April 1918 | Laurium | United Kingdom |
582 | Sunk |
| 25 April 1918 | Sote |  Sweden |
1,353 | Sunk |
| 26 April 1918 | Llwyngwair | United Kingdom |
1,304 | Sunk |
| 23 May 1918 | Mefjord | Norway |
720 | 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-64". 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.
- ↑ "Ernst Müller-Schwarz". uboat.net. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "Erich Hecht". uboat.net. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ferdinand Schwartz". uboat.net. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "SM UC-64 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 11 January 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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