The story of one German submarine

During the First World War, Germany used more than 300 submarines. The naval blockade, which was carried out by the British, contributed to the fact that the Germans declared the waters around the British Isles a military zone.

Submarines of Germany were inferior in the fight to more nimble British warships, merchant and passenger ships that were in the war zone. But despite this, the latter were an excellent target for the Germans.

Numerous losses from passenger ships, such as the Lusitania, forced the United States to enter the war on the side of the Allies.

On July 19, 1918, a twin-screw German submarine convoyed a merchant ship in the North Sea near the town of Hartlepool when, due to the Allied depth charges, she was forced to surface. After that, it was rammed and flooded by the English destroyer H.M.S. Garry.

In the same year, it was lifted and moved to the dry dock of the Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd. shipyard. in England for later recovery. It was later completely dismantled and sold as scrap metal. But before that, its inside was filmed.