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On 2 September 1991, an unidentified U-boat wreck was discovered 73 meters (240 feet) deep (a hazardous depth for standard scuba diving) off the coast of New Jersey. [4] Nicknamed U-Who, the exact identity of the wreck was a matter of frequent debate, and initially the wreck was thought to be either U-550 or U-521. [5] The discoverers of U-Who ...
The U-boat campaign was thus not able to cut off supplies before the US entered the war in 1917 and in later 1918, the U-boat bases were abandoned in the face of the Allied advance. The tactical successes and failures of the Atlantic U-boat Campaign would later be used as a set of available tactics in World War II in a similar U-boat war ...
A fuel tanker torpedoed by U-boat U-506. [43] [44] Hannah Elizabeth United States: 19 November 1835 Two-masted schooner sunk near Pass Cavallo. [45] USS Hatteras United States Navy: 11 January 1863 A US Navy gunboat sunk by CSS Alabama off Galveston during the American Civil War. Heredia United States: 19 May 1942
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U-boat: 1906 U-995: Laboe Naval ... New Jersey Naval Museum, Hackensack: New Jersey: United States: Balao class: 1943 USS Halfbeak: United States ... Florida: United ...
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.
A German U-boat from the First World War is likely to have been sunk deliberately rather than being handed to the Allies, according to a 3D map produced by researchers.
The Henderson may have rammed a U-boat that had just sunk tanker Frank W. Kellogg off the New Jersey coast on August 13, 1918. Lookouts sighted a submarine that was attempting to dive for a torpedo attack and Captain William R. Sayles ordered the rudder hard right attempting to run the enemy down.