UC 1 (Kriegsmarine)
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UC 1 (Kriegsmarine) ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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| Type : | Holland |
| Field Post Number : | M-10 850 |
| Shipyard: | Marinens Hovdenverft , hoarding |
| Build number: | 116 |
| Commissioning: | *1. October 1929 as B 5
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| Calls: | no patrols |
| Sinkings: |
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| Whereabouts: | Decommissioned on January 4, 1942 after fire damage at Deutsche Werke AG , Kiel , and later scrapped |
UC 1 was a former Norwegian coastal submarine of the Holland class, which fell into the hands of the German Navy after Operation Weser Exercise in April 1940 .
The boat
UC 1 was originally the Norwegian coastal submarine B 5 of the Holland type, a class of submarines that each took three years to complete. These boats reached 15 knots over, 8.9 knots underwater, and carried a 8.8 cm deck gun and four torpedoes as armament. The crew consisted of 23 men.
Takeover and Loss
After the invasion of Denmark and Norway by the Wehrmacht and its takeover, all Norwegian ships , including the B 5 and B 6, came into the possession of the navy. After their transfer to Kiel, the B 5 and B 6 were put into service as UC 1 and UC 2 for school purposes, and served as German submarines for over 2 years. The command of UC 1 was taken over by the then 62-year-old Wilhelm Kiesewetter, a submarine commander from the First World War , in which he commanded the type UC II boat UC 56 . But on January 4, 1942, a fire broke out at the Deutsche Werke and UC 1 was badly damaged. Thereupon it was decided to decommission the boat and to scrap it. Two years later, in October 1944, the sister boat UC 2 sank due to sabotage in Bergen . UC 2 was lifted and scrapped in 1945.