UC1 1915
| 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 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement normal, t |
UC1 - 10: 168 / 183 UC11 - 15: 168 / 182 |
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Length, m |
34.0 |
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Breadth, m |
3.15 |
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Draught, m |
UC1 - 10: 3.04 UC11 - 15: 3.06 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
UC1 - 10: 1 Daimler diesel / 1 SSW electric motor UC11 - 15: 1 Benz diesel / 1 SSW electric motor |
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Power, h. p. |
UC1 - 10: 90 / 175 UC11 - 15: 80 / 175 |
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Max speed, kts |
UC1 - 10: 6.2 / 5.2 UC11 - 15: 6.5 / 5.7 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 3 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
UC1 - 10: 780(5) / 50(4) UC11 - 15: 910(5) / 50(4) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 12 mines |
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Complement |
14 |
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Diving depth operational, m |
50 |
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.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014