NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
UC1		45	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	26.4.1915	5.1915	sunk 7.1917
UC2		46	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	12.5.1915	5.1915	sunk 2.7.1915
UC3		47	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	28.5.1915	6.1915	sunk 27.5.1916
UC4		48	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	6.6.1915	6.1915	scuttled 5.10.1918
UC5		49	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	13.6.1915	6.1915	wrecked 27.4.1916
UC6		50	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	20.6.1915	6.1915	sunk 28.9.1917
UC7		51	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	6.7.1915	7.1915	sunk 6.7.1916
UC8		52	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	6.7.1915	7.1915	captured by Netherlands 4.11.1915, later to Netherlands (M1)
UC9		53	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	11.7.1915	7.1915	sunk 21.10.1915
UC10		54	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	15.7.1915	7.1915	sunk 21.8.1916
UC11		225	Weser, Bremen	1914	11.4.1915	4.1915	sunk 26.6.1918
UC12		226	Weser, Bremen	1914	29.4.1915	5.1915	Austrian flag 1915 (U24), sunk 16.3.1916, later to Italy (X1)
UC13		227	Weser, Bremen	1914	5.1915	5.1915	Austrian flag 1915 (U25), wrecked 29.11.1915
UC14		228	Weser, Bremen	1914	13.5.1915	6.1915	Austrian flag 1915-1916 (U18), sunk 3.10.1917
UC15		229	Weser, Bremen	1914	19.5.1915	6.1915	Austrian flag 1915 (U19), sunk 14-15.11.1916

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	UC1 - 10: 168 / 183 UC11 - 15: 168 / 182
Length, m	34.0
Breadth, m	3.15
Draught, m	UC1 - 10: 3.04 UC11 - 15: 3.06
No of shafts	1
Machinery	UC1 - 10: 1 Daimler diesel / 1 SSW electric motor UC11 - 15: 1 Benz diesel / 1 SSW electric motor
Power, h. p.	UC1 - 10: 90 / 175 UC11 - 15: 80 / 175
Max speed, kts	UC1 - 10: 6.2 / 5.2 UC11 - 15: 6.5 / 5.7
Fuel, t	diesel oil 3
Endurance, nm(kts)	UC1 - 10: 780(5) / 50(4) UC11 - 15: 910(5) / 50(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 12 mines
Complement	14
Diving depth operational, m	50

Standard scale images

Project history

Single-hulled UC I type minelayers. Mines were carried in near-vertical flooded tubes forward; they had no other armament.

Modernizations

1916, UC11: + 1 - 450 TT (stern, 1)

Naval service

UC1 was mined at Flanders coast in July 1917. UC2 was rammed by British s/s Cottingham in the North Sea, raised by British and put on display on Thames. UC3 was mined in the North Sea 27.5.1916. UC4 was scuttled at Flanders coast 5.10.1918. UC5 wrecked in a gale in Thames mouth 27.4.1916, raised and towed by British destroyer Firedrake to England to put on display. UC6 was mined in the Thames mouth 28.9.1917. UC7 was sunk by British patrol boat 6.7.1916 in the Thames mouth. UC8 en route to Flanders grounded on Dutch coast 4.11.1915, was interned by Netherlands and in March 1917 became Dutch M1. UC9 was stricken by own mine 21.10.1915 in the North Sea. UC10 was torpedoed by British submarine E54 21.8.1916 in the North Sea. UC11 was mined in the North Sea 26.6.1918. UC12 was sunk by own mine off Taranto 16.3.1916, later raised by Italians and in April 1917 was commissioned by Regia Marina as X1. UC13 stranded in a gale 29.11.1915 in the Black Sea. UC14 was mined off Flanders coast 3.10.1917. UC15 was mined 14-15.11.1916 in the Black Sea.