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UC1 (UC I) coastal submarine minelayers (1915)


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


<i>UC1 </i>1915
UC1 1915


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.