German Type UC II submarine | |
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![]() Two Type UC II submarines alongside Austro-Hungarian depot ship Amphitrite at Gjenovic, Bocche di Cattaro, in the Adriatic Sea | |
Class overview | |
Builders: |
AG Weser, Bremen Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Vulcan, Hamburg Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Operators: |
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Preceded by: | UC I |
Succeeded by: | UC III |
Cost: | 1,729,000–2,141,000 German Mark |
Built: | 1916–1918 |
In commission: | 1916–1918 |
Building: | 64 |
Planned: | 64 |
Completed: | 64 |
Lost: | 46 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Coastal minelaying submarine |
Displacement: |
400–434 t (394–427 long tons) ↑ 480–511 t (472–503 long tons) ↓ |
Length: | 49.35–53.15 m (161.9–174.4 ft) o/a |
Beam: | 5.22 m (17.1 ft) |
Draught: | 3.65 m (12.0 ft) |
Propulsion: |
2 shafts 6-cylinder diesel engines, 500–600 ihp (373–447 kW) Siemens-Schuckert electric motors, 450–550 ihp (336–410 kW) |
Speed: |
11.6–11.9 knots (21.5–22.0 km/h; 13.3–13.7 mph) ↑ 6.7–7.3 knots (12.4–13.5 km/h; 7.7–8.4 mph) ↓ |
Range: |
7,280–10,040 mi (11,720–16,160 km) at 7 kn (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) ↑ 52–60 mi (84–97 km) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) ↓ |
Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft) |
Complement: | 3 officers, 23 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems: | 1 periscope |
Armament: |
• 2 × 50 cm (19.7 in) external bow torpedo tubes • 1 × internal stern tube (7 torpedoes) • 1 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) or 10.5 cm (4.1 in) deck gun • 1 machine gun • 18 × Type UC 200 mines in 6 internal chutes |
Type UC II minelaying submarines were used by the Imperial German Navy during World War I. They displaced 417 tons, carried guns, 7 torpedoes and up to 18 mines. The ships were double-hulled with improved range and seakeeping compared to the UC I type.
If judged only by the numbers of enemy vessels destroyed, the UC II is the most successful submarine design in history: According to modern estimates, they sank more than 1800 enemy vessels.[1]
List of Type UC II submarines[]
There were 64 Type UC II submarines commissioned into the Imperial German Navy.
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See also[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to German Type UC II submarine. |
References[]
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1922
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