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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.
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 ...
By December 1912, the Austro-Hungarian Navy had, in addition to U-2 and U-1, a total of seven battleships, six cruisers, eight destroyers, 28 torpedo boats, and four submarines ready for combat. [20] The crisis eventually subsided after the signing of the Treaty of London , and the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy were subsequently demobilized on ...
The Austro-Hungarian U-boat fleet was created in the decade prior to the First World War.They were built to a variety of designs, many under licence from Germany. They served throughout the war against Italian, French and British shipping in the Mediterranean Sea with some success, losing eight of the twenty eight boats in service in return.
Austria-Hungary's U-boat fleet was largely obsolete at the outbreak of World War I. [6] The Austro-Hungarian Navy satisfied its most urgent needs by purchasing five Type UB I submarines that comprised the U-10 class from Germany, [7] by raising and recommissioning the sunken French submarine Curie as U-14, [6] [Note 1] and by building four submarines of the U-20 class that were based on the ...
U-3, the lead boat of the class, was sunk by gunfire in August 1915. U-4 was the longest-serving Austro-Hungarian submarine and sank 14,928 gross register tons (GRT) and 7,345 tons of ships, including the Italian armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi in July 1915. U-4 was handed over to France as a war reparation in 1920 and scrapped.
In June, U-5 helped search for the lost Austro-Hungarian seaplane L 41, and in July, received an upgrade of her deck gun to a 4.7 cm (1.9 in) QF gun. [5] In early August, U-5 was sent out from Lissa when the Austro-Hungarian Navy received word from a reconnaissance aircraft that an Italian submarine had been sighted at Pelagosa. [17]
Austria-Hungary's U-boat fleet was largely obsolete at the outbreak of World War I. [5] The Austro-Hungarian Navy satisfied its most urgent needs by purchasing five Type UB I submarines that comprised the U-10 class from Germany, [6] by raising and recommissioning the sunken French submarine Curie as U-14, [5] [Note 1] and by building four submarines of the U-20 class that were based on the ...