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The Type UB I submarine (sometimes known as the UB-1 class [1]) was a class of small coastal submarines built in Germany at the beginning of the First World War.Twenty boats were constructed, most of which went into service with the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) Boats of this design were also operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K ...
Type U 31 was a class of U-boats built during World War I by the Kaiserliche Marine. Between 1912 and 1915 eleven were built on Germaniawerft in Kiel , amongst these top-three-scoring U-35 with the famous Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière as commander, U-39 with Walter Forstmann and U-38 with Max Valentiner .
U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.
Most of the armoured cars of the war were produced by building armoured bodywork over commercial large car and truck chassis. Austria-Hungary. Austro-Daimler armoured car [46] Gonsior-Opp-Frank armoured car * [47] Junovicz P.A.1 [48] Romfell armoured car [49] Belgium. Minerva armoured car [50] SAVA armoured car [51] Canada. Armoured Autocar [52]
U-151 was originally one of seven Deutschland class U-boats designed to carry cargo between the United States and Germany in 1916. Five of the submarine freighters were converted into long-range cruiser U-boats (U-kreuzers) equipped with two 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 deck guns, including U-151 which was originally to have been named Oldenburg.
Type 81 U-boats carried 12 torpedoes and had various arrangements of deck guns. U 81 to U 83 had one 10.5-centimetre (4.1 in) deck gun with 140-240 rounds. U 84 - U 86 were constructed with two 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) deck guns. In 1917, U 84 - U 86 were converted to a carry one 10.5 cm and one 8.8 cm deck gun [2] and carried 240 rounds.
The Type I U-boat was the first post–World War I attempt to produce an oceangoing submarine for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The type was based on the Spanish Type E-1 [ 1 ] and Finnish CV707 , which were both designed by Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw . [ 2 ]
SM UB-27 was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 30 April 1915 and launched on 10 February 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 23 February 1916 as SM UB-27.