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Originally Posted by mcarlsonus
Here's a freebie! Regards U-Boat action in WW1 against the Cunard liner, Lusitania. http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/lusitania.htm
(I DO kind of wonder about statements like, "...submerged and approached the large passenger liner at 9 knots," though! That'd make the old U-Boat faster than its WW2 counterparts!) |
No need to wonder, the British "R" Class of 1917 was capable of sprinting at 15 knots submerged, a speed not reached again in servce until the Type XXIII U-Boats of late 1944.