Silent Killers by James Delgado

Author:James Delgado
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare
ISBN: 9781849088619
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

American submarine L-1 at Bantry Bay, Ireland, 1918. (US Naval History and Heritage Command)

The new policy did not stop one German U-boat ace Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere from achieving a record that has yet to be surpassed by any submarine commander. Surfacing and giving warning, de la Periere, in command of U-35,sank nearly all of his targets with his 88mm deck gun, and only fired torpedoes four times – missing once – to sink a record 194 ships, or 454,000 tons of shipping. In all, by war’s end, German and Austrian submarines had sunk a total of 325 ships in the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas.14

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