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Karau, Mark D.: Submarines and Submarine Warfare, in: 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. World's Navies in World War 1, Campaigns, Battles, Warship losses "First Battle of the Atlantic" article. Photos of cruises of German submarine U-54 in 1916–1918.
The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atlantic waters—the seas around the British Isles, the North Sea and the coast of France.
Submarine warfare is one of the four divisions of underwater warfare, the others being anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and mine countermeasures.. Submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.
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.
Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning. The use of unrestricted submarine warfare has had significant impacts on international relations in regards to both the First World War and the Second World War .
1914, October 18 – German submarine U-27 sinks HMS E3 in the first ever successful attack on one submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars. [1] 1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 ...
The attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during World War I on 21 July 1918 when a German submarine fired on a small convoy of barges led by a tugboat off Orleans, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the Cape Cod peninsula. Several shells fired during the engagement likely missed their intended maritime or aircraft targets and fell ...
Von Trapp (1880–1947) was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of the war. In addition to 11 merchant ships, he also sank the French armored cruiser Léon Gambetta and the Italian submarine Nereide. After the war, he lost most of his money, which had been deposited in an Austrian bank that failed.