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J U-boat casualties 1914-1918 697 K Surrender of Imperial U-boat fleet 1918-1919 705 Bibliography 711 Index 719
Preface Editor’s perspective xi The German Navy 1900-1914 xii The World merchant fleet 1914 xv U-boats xvi Britain and the German submarines 1914-1918 xiii German submarine warfare 1914-1918 xxi German naval construction 1914-1918 xxxix This book contains an immense amount of detail about Imperial German submarine warfare for the period of the First World War, 1914-1918. The wealth of data covers technical design, personnel, tactics, individual U-boat cruises, casualties and much related information about the Central Powers’ Allied opponents. The text is entirely based on documentary sources at the National Archives, Kew, England. The materials examined and cited here include prisoner-of-war statements, intelligence analyses, deciphered wireless traffic communications, as well as testimony of survivors of sunken ships. The objective strives to offer a representation of the First World War at sea on several levels as we near its centennial, including: • Background of the German naval construction program, 1900-1918, when the emphasis remained overlong on the pre-eminence of the battleship at the expense of submarine construction and deployment; • Discussion of the lead-up to unrestricted submarine warfare; • Implications of a British naval officer’s manual dated April, 1918 in which exacting technical information about German submarines is detailed; • A review of what lay behind the door of Room 40 of the Royal Navy’s Intelligence Division; and a look at eyewitness reports from German Uboat POWs as well as from crews of sunken allied merchant ships, reports of allied warships engaged in anti-submarine warfare operations, and deciphered German radio communications messages. Britain When the first volume (in the twenty-eight volume set) of the History of the Great War Based on Official Documents was just short of completion in 1923, the Admiralty announced that their Lordships were not interested in overemphasising the role of German submarines. Several changes had to be made, most especially to material that dealt with submarine warfare through April, 1917 because: “1. These chapters provide gloomy reading from the British point of view and there is much in them to encourage potential enemies who may consider that it is in their competence to subjugate the Empire by a large submarine building program. ix
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LOKKEN, 327 LOOKOUT, 239 LORD SEFTO
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TINTO, 290 TIRADE, 439 TITAN, 240 T
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U-108, 11, 38, 39, 502, 602 U-109,
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