which ship was sunk by german u boats
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Lusitania sinks On January 31, 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced it would resume unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American ship Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat.
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- U-boat is a German term for a submarine. Germany made their first submarine in 1895 but they were not referred to as U-boats. Germany built some submarines for Russia and …other countries.     The first one build for the German Navy was built in 1905.
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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Walter Schwieger was captain of the U-Boat that sank the Lusitania. He watched through his periscope as the torpedo exploded and noted the result in his log, The ship stops immediately and heals over to starboard quickly, immersing simultaneously at the bow.
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- 1939 - Germany abrogates the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement in April. Battlecruiser Scharnhorst completed; battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz launched before September 1939. German U-boats and two pocket battleships sail for their war stations in the Atlantic late August.
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U-boat , a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally undersea boat. While the German term refers to any submarine, the English one (in common with several other languages) refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.he primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire, and the United States to the islands of the United Kingdom and (during the Second World War) to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean.
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U-boat Related History Read about one of the most interesting events of the U-boat of WWII when Heinz-Wilhelm Eck of U-852 ordered the wreck of the torpedoed merchant Peleus destroyed with machine-gun fire.
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- In fact, they were in Norway because of Hitler's invasion fears. 1943 FEBRUARY 1943 U-class submarine UREDD of the Royal Norwegian Navy was sunk off Norway on the 24th. APRIL 1943 Submarine Tuna on Norwegian Arctic patrol sank U-644 northwest of Narvik, Norway on the 7th.n fact, they were in Norway because of Hitler's invasion fears. 1943 FEBRUARY 1943 U-class submarine UREDD of the Royal Norwegian Navy was sunk off Norway on the 24th. APRIL 1943 Submarine Tuna on Norwegian Arctic patrol sank U-644 northwest of Narvik, Norway on the 7th.
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U-boats Assassins of the Seas On 13-Mar-1916 the German military issued orders which loosened its stance on sinking without warning. Their U-boat commanders would be able to fire on British ships in home waters as long as they did not appear to be of the passenger variety.
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The U-Boats that Survived - The Whole Story A total of 156 U-Boats surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Of these, 155 were German-built U-Boats and one was a Dutch submarine used by the Germans (UD-5).When the war with Japan ended in August 1945, seven of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarines which surrendered were either ex-German-built or German-commissioned U-Boats.s a result of these allocations by the TNC, of the 135 U-Boats in the UK, eight were allocated to the UK, one to the USA and 10 to the USSR. This therefore left 116 U-Boats in Loch Ryan and at Lisahally awaiting final disposal by the Royal Navy.
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- Sunk as a result of damage received on the 1 November 1943 ramming of the German submarine U-405 in the North Atlantic, north of the Azores, 2 November, 1943. USS Bristol (DD-453) Sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-371 off Cape Bougaroun, Algeria, 12 October 1943.
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- RMS Lusitania. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship Mauretania.
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German U-Boat But the Battle of the Atlantic was a commerce war waged by German U-Boats against Britain s merchant marine. For nearly six years, Germany launched over 1,000 U-Boats into combat, in an attempt to isolate and blockade the British Isles, thereby forcing the British out of the war.
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How many ships did the German battleship Bismarck sink? At the Battle of the Denmark Strait, Bismarck engaged and destroyed the battlecruiser HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, and forced the battleship HMS Prince of Wales to retreat; Bismarck was hit three times and suffered an oil leak from a ruptured tank.
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During WW2, when U-Boats where sunk off the coast of America, what would the U-Boat survivors do? If under attack by surface ships, there was some chance for some of the crew to escape and be rescued by the attackers: three of four u-boats sunk off the US coast with survivors were sunk by surface ships, compared to only one u-boat sunk by aircraft attack with survivors. U-166 - sunk 30 July 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico. No survivors, 52 dead.
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- On this day, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst is sunk by British warships in the Arctic after decoded German naval signals reveal that the Scharnhorst is on a mission to attack an Anglo-American convoy to Russia.
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seaman Third -- In spite of their attempts to put the blame on Great Britain, it will tax the ingenuity even of the Germans to explain away the fact that it was a German torpedo, fired by a German seaman from a German submarine, that sank the vessel and caused over 1,000 deaths.
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H. L. Hunley  (submarine) The H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War. The Hunley demonstrated the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship, although the Hunley was not completely submerged and, following her successful attack, was lost along with her crew before she could return to base.
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What was the significance of the Lusitania? While a cruise ship called Lusitania was going from America to B … ritain, German submarines spotted it, and although it was only legal for the ships to be searched, German U-boats simply torpedoed the Lusitania, killing 128 Americans and over 1,000 passengers in total who were on the cruise ship.
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Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror A German U-boat enters a Norwegian harbour in July 1942 to a welcome party of German officers and soldiers. The front of the Nazi propaganda album which states 'With the Reichskommissar in Norway and Finland 10-27 July 1942'. Jodl was hanged following the Nuremberg war trials for signing the orders to allow the summary execution of prisoners.
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- The typical U-boat was 214 feet long, carried 35 men and 12 torpedoes, and could travel underwater for two hours at a time. In the first few years of World War I, the U-boats took a terrible toll on Allied shipping.In early May 1915, several New York newspapers published a warning by the German embassy in Washington that Americans traveling on British or Allied ships in war zones did so at their own risk.everal U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines and, in February 1915, Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain.
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- One of these subs, a Kaiten manned suicide torpedo with a 3418-pound warhead struck the USS Mississinewa, an oil tanker. The ship exploded in flames and soon sank with a loss of 63 sailors and the Japanese pilot. USS Mississinewa burning after being hit by a Kaiten Kamikaze torpedo in Ulithi Harbor, November 20, 1944. Destroyers dropping depth charges in search for Kaiten Kamikaze torpedoes in Ulithi Harbor, November 20, 1944. Kaiten suicide torpedo recovered in Ulithi Harbor following Kamikaze attack on November 20, 1944. The front part of the Kaiten is destroyed.
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Wreckage of U-boat sunken by 'sea monster' found off UK Story highlights. (CNN)A German submarine from World War I that was said to have been taken down by a sea monster has been discovered off the coast of Scotland. Incredible sonar images show the 100-year-old wreck to be mostly intact, and the find has led to the resurfacing of nautical folklore.
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World War II U-Boat Found With Skeletons Email. Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew off the coast of Indonesia. Experts say it's an unprecedented find that could provide insight into how the war was fought in the South West Pacific theater.
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Lusitania sinks A+E Networks. On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea.Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.+E Networks. On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea.
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This Map Shows the Full Extent of the Devastation Wrought by U-Boats in World War I No German war vessel can get her or near her.”. Unfortunately, this confidence was premature. Later that May afternoon, the German submarine U 20 sent a single torpedo through the side of the Lusitania, triggering an explosion inside the ship, and sinking it within 18 minutes.