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As a result, German U-boats operating in Mediterranean were assigned Austro-Hungarian numbers and flags. In some cases the same Austro-Hungarian numbers were assigned to different German U-boats. After 28 August 1916, when Germany and Italy were officially at war, the practice continued, primarily to avoid charges of flag misuse.
The first two boats delivered to Austria-Hungary had previously been commissioned in February 1915 by the Kaiserliche Marine, [3] while the remaining three were commissioned by the Austro-Hungarian marine in April 1915. [12] The U-10 class as a whole did not have much wartime success, two of the boats sinking no ships. [12]
Austria-Hungary's U-boat fleet was largely obsolete at the outbreak of World War I. [4] The Austro-Hungarian Navy satisfied its most urgent needs by purchasing five Type UB I submarines that comprised the U-10 class from Germany, [5] by raising and recommissioning the sunken French submarine Curie as U-14, [4] [Note 1] and by building four submarines of the U-20 class that were based on the ...
U-5 and U-6 were both commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy by April 1910, and served as training boats through 1914, making as many as ten training cruises per month. During their early years, each boat was demonstrated to a foreign naval delegation; U-5 to a Peruvian detachment in 1911, U-6 to a Norwegian group in 1910. [ 9 ]
Austria-Hungary's U-boat fleet was largely obsolete at the outbreak of World War I. [2] The Austro-Hungarian Navy satisfied its most urgent needs by purchasing five Type UB I submarines that comprised the U-10 class from Germany, [3] by raising and recommissioning the sunken French submarine Curie as U-14, [2] [Note 1] and by building four submarines of the U-20 class that were based on the ...
The boat was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy in August 1909, and served as a training boat—sometimes making as many as ten cruises a month—through the beginning of the First World War in 1914. At the start of that conflict, she was one of only four operational submarines in the Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat fleet.
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By December 1912, the Austro-Hungarian Navy had, in addition to U-1 and U-2, a total of seven battleships, six cruisers, eight destroyers, 28 torpedo boats, and four submarines ready for combat. [22] The crisis eventually subsided after the signing of the Treaty of London , and the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy were subsequently demobilized on ...