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This Day In History. History Vault. WATCH: Deconstructing History: U-Boats German navy commanders, however, were ultimately not prepared to accept this degree of passivity, and continued to push for a more aggressive use of the submarine, convincing first the army and eventually the government, most importantly Kaiser Wilhelm, that the U-boat was an essential component of German war strategy.
Those in search of the operational history of German U-boat operations in World War I, accompanied by a pithy analysis of the fateful political and strategic decisions that led to their employment against unarmed merchant vessels, need look no further. He also offers an interesting account of the contemporary and subsequent German debate about how best to conduct submarine warfare. Drawing heavily on German memoirs, this is a useful contribution to naval history, more especially of World War One.
Now, with roughly thirty submarines at sea at a time, the Germans enjoyed enormous success. In February, the Germans sank , tons of shipping; in March they sank , tons and in April they sank a phenomenal , tons.
Eventually the convoy system would prove effective but it took time to organize and fully implement it and in the meantime the submarines continued their depredations. In May, they sank , tons; in June , tons and in July, as convoys became widespread, , tons. An angry President Woodrow Wilson sought and received a declaration of war on Germany in April In November , a new German government would recognize their defeat and end the war. The Germans used primarily three types of submarines during the war, the U-boat , large fleet boats, and two smaller classes, the UB and UC boats.
All of these craft developed over the course of the war as experience led to changes in design. By the time that the second unrestricted campaign began in , a representative fleet boat had the following specifications: they displaced tons, could reach speeds of seventeen knots on the surface and eight when submerged, mounted a By the end of the war these ships displaced tons, could reach 13 knots on the surface and nearly eight submerged, mounted an 8.
They were accompanied by a class of submarine minelayers, the UC class, which displaced just over tons, could travel at eleven knots on the surface and nearly seven submerged, mounted an 8.
In the end the German submarines had an enormous impact on the war. Over the course of the war German submarines sank 6, ships displacing a combined total of 11,, tons. In exchange they lost submarines for an average of nearly 52, tons sunk per submarine.
Karau, Mark D. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. DOI : Version 1. Submarines and Submarine Warfare. The order, however, was temporary. Germany built new and larger U-boats to punch holes in the British blockade, which was threatening to starve Germany out of the war. In , Germany had just 20 U-boats. By , it had and the U-boats had destroyed about 30 percent of the world's merchant ships.
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