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U-58: Ordered: 6 October 1914: Builder: AG Weser, Bremen: Yard number: 213: Laid down: 8 June 1915: Launched: 31 May 1916: Commissioned: 9 August 1916: Fate: Depth charged by the destroyer USS Fanning in Cork Harbour. 2 dead, 38 survivors. General characteristics [1] Class and type: Type U 57 submarine: Displacement: 786 t (774 long tons ...
SM UB-58, a Type UB III submarine launched in 1917 and sunk on 10 March 1918 SM UC-58 , a Type UC II submarine launched in 1916 and surrendered on 24 November 1918; broken up at Cherbourg in 1921 German submarine U-58 (1938) , a Type IIC submarine that served in the Second World War until scuttled on 3 May 1945
SM UB-58 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the Flanders Flotilla of the German Imperial Navy on 10 August 1917 as SM UB-58. [Note 1] She operated as part of the Flanders Flotilla based in Zeebrugge.
German submarine U-58 was a Type IIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served in the Second World War. She was produced by Deutsche Werke AG , Kiel . Ordered on 17 June 1937, she was laid down on 29 September as yard number 257.
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Cheesman, E.F. (ed.) Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960; The Great War, television documentary by the BBC. Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen German Aircraft of the First World War. London, Putnam, 1962. Guttman, Jon. Pusher Aces of World War 1: Volume 88 of Osprey Aircraft of the Aces: Volume 88 of Aircraft of ...
The term ace (now commonly flying ace) was first used by French newspapers during World War I, describing Adolphe Pégoud as l'as ('the ace'), after he downed five German aircraft. When aircraft began to shoot or force down other aircraft, systems to count "air victories" were subsequently developed.
Founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau. [1] The firm originally manufactured copies of the Etrich Taube monoplane under the Rumpler Taube trademark, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers.