UC III Type Submarine (1918)

Germany started launching UC III Type coastal minelayer submarines in 1918. Sixteen were commissioned before the end of the war and nine were completed after the war.

Overview of 16 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
UC 90	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Jan, 1918	15 Jul, 1918	Surrendered 1 Dec, 1918
UC 91	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Jan, 1918	31 Jul, 1918	Collision 5 Sep, 1918
UC 92	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Jan, 1918	14 Aug, 1918	Broken up 1921
UC 93	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Feb, 1918	22 Aug, 1918	Broken up 1919
UC 94	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Feb, 1918	31 Aug, 1918	Broken up 1919
UC 95	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		19 Feb, 1918	16 Sep, 1918	Broken up 1922
UC 96	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		17 Mar, 1918	25 Sep, 1918	Broken up 1919
UC 97	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		17 Mar, 1918	3 Sep, 1918	Expended 7 Jun, 1921
UC 98	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		17 Mar, 1918	10 Sep, 1918	Broken up 1919
UC 99	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		17 Mar, 1918	20 Sep, 1918	Broken up 1920
UC 100	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		14 Apr, 1918	30 Sep, 1918	Broken up 1921
UC 101	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		14 Apr, 1918	8 Oct, 1918	Broken up 1922
UC 102	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		14 Apr, 1918	14 Oct, 1918	Broken up 1922
UC 103	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		14 Apr, 1918	21 Oct, 1918	Broken up 1921
UC 104	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		25 May, 1918	18 Oct, 1918	Broken up 1921
UC 105	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg		25 May, 1918	28 Oct, 1918	Broken up 1922

Design

These were a considerable improvement over the preceding types of coastal minelayers. They could dive to 75m.

Torpedoes

• two 50cm external tubes amidship firing forward
• one 50cm tube in stern

Seven torpedoes were carried.

Mines

• fourteen UC 200 type mines

Guns

• one 10.5cm KL/45 (in some)
• one 8.8cm KL/30 (in others)

See Also

• Wikipedia
• UBoat.net

Bibliography

• Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).