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Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and surrender intact of all German submarines within 14 days. [32] Listed German surface vessels to be interned within 7 days and the rest disarmed. [32] Free access to German waters for Allied ships and for those of the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. [32] The naval blockade of Germany to ...
The signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 with Germany, at Compiègne, France, effectively ended the First World War.The Allied powers agreed that Germany's U-boat fleet should be surrendered without the possibility of return, but were unable to agree upon a course of action regarding the German surface fleet.
SM U-118 [Note 1] was a type UE II mine-laying submarine of the Imperial German Navy and one of 329 submarines serving with that navy during World War I. U-118 engaged in naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic .
"WWI U-boat Types: Type U 151". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: 155 (ex-Deutschland)". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. A Political Submarine, 1916 (Scientific American, this Week in World War I: July 22, 1916)
U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.
German U-boat U-14. In August 1914, a flotilla of ten U-boats sailed from their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea in the first submarine war patrol in history. [8] Their aim was to sink capital ships of the British Grand Fleet, and so to reduce the Grand Fleet's numerical superiority over the German High Seas Fleet.
SM U-139 was the lead ship of her class, one of the submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She was commissioned on 18 May 1918 under the command of Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, who named the submarine Kapitänleutnant Schwieger, after Walther Schwieger, who had sunk the Lusitania in 1915. She only sailed on one war ...
Deutschland made two successful commercial voyages before being commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine on February 17, 1917, as U-155. [citation needed]Max Valentiner commanded a Type U 151 U-boat, U-157, and undertook the longest cruise in the war from 27 November 1917 to 15 April 1918, a total of 139 days.