SM UC-8

For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-8.
The UC-8 in Dutch service as M 1
Career (German Empire)
Name: UC-8
Ordered: by November 1914[1]
Builder: AG Vulcan, Hamburg[2]
Yard number: 52[1]
Launched: 6 July 1915[1]
Commissioned: 5 July 1915[1]
Fate: grounded on Dutch coast, 4 November 1915; interned[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 × 7.92 mm (0.312 in) machine gun[2]
Service record
Part of: I Flotilla
unknown – 4 Nov 1915
Commanders: Oblt Georg Haag[4]
5 Jul 1915 – 17 Oct 1915
Oblt Walter Gottfried Schmidt[5]
18 Oct 1915 – 4 Nov 1915
Operations: 1 patrol
Victories: None

SM UC-8 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 6 July 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 5 July 1915 as SM UC-8.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-8 in her one patrol are not known to have sunk any ships. UC-8 ran aground on the Dutch coast near Terschelling on 4 November 1915. Interned by the Dutch, UC-8 was purchased and commissioned into the Dutch Navy as M-1. The submarine was broken up in 1932.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ "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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-8". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tarrant, p. 173.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Gardiner, p. 181.
  4. ↑ "Georg Haag". Uboat.net. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Walter Gottfried Schmidt". Uboat.net. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

Bibliography

  • 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.