WW1 Submarines: What Were They Used For And Do Any Still Exist?
This isn't an unusual practice for the world's navies ... The SM U-1 was built before the war, and Germany decommissioned it before the submarine saw a single battle. When WWI kicked off, the ...
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400 Years of Subs
One of five U-boats turned over to the ... A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol. As in World War I ...
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THE SUBMARINE, 1776–1918
In August 1914 the Royal Navy had twenty full-sized dreadnought battleships and nine battle cruisers, the Imperial German Navy ... A Naval History of World War I, pp. 335–39. 17. “One merchant ship in ...
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World War One: The war at sea
Meanwhile, below the waves, German submarines sought to sink supply ... The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War One. The battle took place in the North Sea off the coast ...
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400 Years of Subs
While on sea trials, the spanking new U.S. Navy Squalus, SS-192, sank in 240 feet of water when an incompletely closed valve caused flooding in the engine room. Twenty-six men were killed in the ...