SM UC-75
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-75.
Career (German Empire) | |
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Name: | UC-75 |
Ordered: | 12 January 1916[1] |
Builder: | AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2] |
Yard number: | 80[1] |
Launched: | 6 November 1916[1] |
Commissioned: | 6 December 1916[1] |
Fate: | rammed and sunk by HMS Fairy, 31 May 1918[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | German Type UC II submarine |
Displacement: | 410 t (450 short tons), surfaced[2] 493 t (543 short tons), submerged |
Length: | 165 ft 6 in (50.44 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] 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h), submerged |
Endurance: | 10,420 nautical miles at 7 knots, surfaced[3] (19,300 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[4] | |
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Part of: |
I Flotilla 10 feb 1917 - 5 Aug 1917 Flandern/Flandern II Flotilla 5 Aug 1917 – 31 May 1918 |
Commanders: |
Kptlt Georg Paech 6 Dec 1916 - 16 Mar 1917 Oblt Johannes Lohs 17 Mar 1917 – 30 Jan 1918 Oblt Walter Schmitz 31 Jan 1918 – 31 May 1918 |
Operations: | 13 patrol |
Victories: |
56 merchant ships sunk (82,864 GRT) 8 merchant ships damaged (40,021 GRT) 2 warships sunk (1,555 tons) |
SM UC-75 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 and was launched on 6 November 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 6 December 1916 as SM UC-75.[Note 1] In 13 patrols UC-75 was credited with sinking 56 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-75 rammed and sunk by HMS Fairy on 31 May 1918.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[5] |
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25 March 1917 | Industria | United Kingdom | 133 | Sunk |
25 March 1917 | Marshall | Norway | 1,123 | Sunk |
25 March 1917 | Median | United Kingdom | 214 | Sunk |
25 March 1917 | Rosslyn | United Kingdom | 113 | Sunk |
28 March 1917 | Expedient | United Kingdom | 145 | Sunk |
29 March 1917 | Schaldis | Belgium | 1,241 | Sunk |
1 May 1917 | Alide | Russian Empire | 175 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Carberry King | United Kingdom | 31 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Eleanor | United Kingdom | 31 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Fastnet | United Kingdom | 31 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Hibernia | United Kingdom | 21 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Lucky Lass | United Kingdom | 10 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | North Star | United Kingdom | 15 | Sunk |
3 May 1917 | Sir Edward Birkbeck | United Kingdom | 23 | Sunk |
4 May 1917 | Marie | France | 133 | Sunk |
5 May 1917 | HMS Lavender | Royal Navy | 1,200 | Sunk |
6 May 1917 | President | France | 354 | Sunk |
15 May 1917 | Polymnia | United Kingdom | 2,426 | Sunk |
7 June 1917 | Wilhelm | United Kingdom | 187 | Sunk |
11 June 1917 | Anglian | United Kingdom | 5,532 | Sunk |
18 June 1917 | Kathlamba | United Kingdom | 6,382 | Damaged |
19 June 1917 | Kelso | United Kingdom | 1,292 | Sunk |
20 June 1917 | Benita | United Kingdom | 130 | Sunk |
20 June 1917 | Bidartaise | France | 123 | Sunk |
29 July 1917 | Saint Marcouf | France | 1,117 | Sunk |
1 August 1917 | Karina | United Kingdom | 4,222 | Sunk |
3 August 1917 | Beechpark | United Kingdom | 4,763 | Sunk |
25 August 1917 | Cymrian | United Kingdom | 1,014 | Sunk |
29 August 1917 | Cooroy | United Kingdom | 2,470 | Sunk |
29 August 1917 | Lynburn | United Kingdom | 587 | Sunk |
28 September 1917 | William Middleton | United Kingdom | 2,543 | Damaged |
9 October 1917 | Main | United Kingdom | 715 | Sunk |
12 October 1917 | W. M. Barkley | United Kingdom | 569 | Sunk |
13 October 1917 | Eskmere | United Kingdom | 2,293 | Sunk |
19 October 1917 | Hazelwood | United Kingdom | 3,120 | Sunk |
3 November 1917 | Atlantian | United Kingdom | 9,399 | Damaged |
4 November 1917 | Longwy | France | 2,315 | Sunk |
8 November 1917 | The Marquis | United Kingdom | 373 | Sunk |
1 December 1917 | Euphorbia | United Kingdom | 3,109 | Sunk |
1 December 1917 | Rydal Hall | United Kingdom | 3,314 | Sunk |
4 December 1917 | Milton | United Kingdom | 3,267 | Damaged |
7 December 1917 | Earl Of Elgin | United Kingdom | 4,448 | Sunk |
28 December 1917 | Alfred H. Read | United Kingdom | 457 | Sunk |
28 December 1917 | Chirripo | United Kingdom | 4,050 | Sunk |
3 January 1918 | Asborg | Norway | 2,750 | Sunk |
4 January 1918 | Day Spring | United Kingdom | 39 | Sunk |
4 January 1918 | Gratitude | United Kingdom | 40 | Sunk |
4 January 1918 | Varuna | United Kingdom | 40 | Sunk |
5 January 1918 | Iolanthe | United Kingdom | 3,081 | Sunk |
6 January 1918 | Arca | United Kingdom | 4,839 | Damaged |
7 January 1918 | Gascony | United Kingdom | 3,133 | Sunk |
7 January 1918 | Leon | France | 2,401 | Sunk |
5 March 1918 | Edouard Marie | Belgium | 32 | Sunk |
9 March 1918 | Marguerite | United Kingdom | 10 | Sunk |
10 March 1918 | Sunrise | United Kingdom | 56 | Sunk |
10 March 1918 | Wave | United Kingdom | 47 | Sunk |
13 March 1918 | Arno Mendi | Spain | 2,827 | Sunk |
14 March 1918 | Tweed | United Kingdom | 1,777 | Sunk |
17 March 1918 | Eliza Anne | United Kingdom | 36 | Sunk |
18 March 1918 | Navigator | United Kingdom | 3,803 | Damaged |
28 March 1918 | Dryden | United Kingdom | 5,839 | Damaged |
16 April 1918 | Hungerford | United Kingdom | 5,811 | Sunk |
19 April 1918 | War Helmet | United Kingdom | 8,184 | Sunk |
12 May 1918 | Benlawers | United Kingdom | 3,949 | Damaged |
29 May 1918 | Dirk | United Kingdom | 181 | Sunk |
31 May 1918 | HMS Fairy | Royal Navy | 355 | 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 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-75". 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.
- ↑ "The Type UC II boat SM UC-75 - German U-boats of WWI - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ↑ "SM UC-75 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 8 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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Coordinates: 53°57′N 0°9′E / 53.950°N 0.150°E