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SM UC-34
Career (German Empire) War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918
Name: UC-34
Ordered: 20 November 1915[1]
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg[2]
Yard number: 275[1]
Launched: 6 May 1916[1]
Commissioned: 25 September 1916[1]
Fate: scuttled at Pola, October 1918[1]
General characteristics
Class & type: German Type UC II submarine
Displacement: 427 t (471 short tons), surfaced[2]
509 t (561 short tons), submerged
Length: 165 ft 2 in (50.34 m)[2]
Beam: 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)[2]
Draft: 12 ft 2 in (4 m)[3]
Propulsion: 2 × propeller shafts
2 × 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engines, 500 bhp (370 kW)[3]
2 × electric motors, 460 shp (340 kW)[3]
Speed: 11.9 knots (22.0 km/h), surfaced[2]
6.8 knots (12.6 km/h), submerged
Endurance: 10,180 nautical miles @ 7 knots, surfaced[3]
(18,850 km @ 13 km/h)
54 nautical miles @ 4 knots, submerged[3]
(100 km @ 7.4 km/h)
Test depth: 50 m (160 ft)[3]
Complement: 26[3]
Armament: 6 × 100 cm (39.4 in) mine tubes[3]
18 × UC 200 mines
3 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 bow/external; one stern)
7 × torpedoes
1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) KL/30 deck gun[2]
Notes: 35-second diving time[2]

SM UC-34 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German language: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 20 November 1915 and was launched on 6 May 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 25 September 1916 as SM UC-34.[Note 1] In nine patrols UC-34 was credited with sinking 21 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid.

On 30 December 1917 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Horst Obermüller, UC-34 torpedoed the British troop ship HMT Aragon off the Port of Alexandria.[4][5] Aragon's escort, the destroyer HMS Attack, rescued 300 to 400 survivors but then UC-34 torpedoed and sank her was well. Of 2,500 personnel who had been aboard Aragon, 610 were killed.[4][5]

UC-34 was scuttled at Pola on 28 October 1918 on the surrender of Austria-Hungary.[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-34". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UC+34. Retrieved 23 February 2009. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Tarrant 1989, p. 173
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Gardiner 1985, p. 182
  4. 4.0 4.1 Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2013). "Aragon". uboat.net. Guðmundur Helgason. http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/402.html. Retrieved 9 April 2013. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Last Song on Doomed Ship". Lismore, New South Wales. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/92915373. Retrieved 9 April 2013. 

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