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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.
Photos of cruises of German submarine U-54 in 1916–1918. Great photo quality, comments in German. A 44 min. film from 1917 about a cruise of the German submarine U-35. A German propaganda film without dead or wounded; many details about submarine warfare in World War I. Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: U 20".
Largest ships hit by U-boats in World War I [7] Ship Type Nationality [Note 1] Tons Date U-boat Commander Notes HMHS Britannic: Hospital ship Royal Navy: 48,758 21 November 1916: U-73: Gustav Sieß Sunk by Mine Justicia [a] Troop ship United Kingdom: 32,234 19 July 1918: UB-64: Otto von Schrader: Damaged, taken under tow Justicia: Troop ship ...
SM U-103 [Note 1] was an Imperial German Navy Type U 57 U-boat that was rammed and sunk by HMT Olympic during the First World War. U-103 was built by AG Weser in Bremen, launched on 9 June 1917 and commissioned 15 July 1917. She completed five tours of duty under Kptlt.
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.
Type U 31 was a class of U-boats built during World War I by the Kaiserliche Marine.. Between 1912 and 1915 eleven were built on Germaniawerft in Kiel, amongst these top-three-scoring U-35 with the famous Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière as commander, U-39 with Walter Forstmann and U-38 with Max Valentiner.
"In 1942 this German U-boat terrorized the Gulf of Mexico, sinking commercial liners and even an American passenger boat –– the Robert E. Lee." ... A Navy ship escorting the passenger boat ...
Ships sunk Patrols Fate Captains SM U-35: Type U 31: 3 November 1914 505,121 220 17 Surrendered, 26 November 1918 Waldemar Kophamel Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière Ernst von Voigt Heino von Heimburg: SM U-39: Type U 31: 13 January 1915 404,774 149 19 Surrendered, 22 March 1919 Hans Kratzsch Walter Forstmann Heinrich Metzger: SM U-38: Type U ...