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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.
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.
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 VIIC/41 U-boat. List of U-boat types contains lists of the German U-boat types (submarine classes) used in World War I and World War II.. The anglicized word U-boat is usually only used as reference for German submarines in the two World Wars and therefore postwar submarine in the Bundesmarine and later German Navy are not included.
There were some 380 U-boats commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine in the years before and during World War I. Although the first four German U-boats—U-1, U-2, U-3, and U-4—were commissioned before 1910, all four served in a training capacity during the war. German U-boats used during World War I were divided into three series.
5 Top-scoring U-boats of World War I Boat Type Commissioned Total tonnage 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 ...
Canaris (1887–1945) commanded various U-boats from 1917 on. However, he is much better known as the admiral in charge of the Abwehr, German military intelligence, in World War II. Karl Dönitz: 3 5 [3] 16,598 [3] Dönitz (1891–1980) commanded UC-25 and UB-68 in 1918. In World War II, he was a grand admiral in charge of all U-boats, later ...
All U-boats listed are German unless otherwise noted in the table. Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Otto Weddigen in U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers that appear on the list—Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy—in a little more than an hour during the action of 22 September 1914. [5]