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A photograph by Karle Netzer was made the next morning, 10 July. She arrived at the Quarantine anchorage off of Marley Neck, Anne Arundel county, just outside of what was then Baltimore city limits.
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on 9 July 1916 the two vessels reached Baltimore.
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on 9 July Cape Henry was sighted and contact made with the Eastern Forwarding Company tug Thomas Timmins which had been specially altered to tow Deutschland alongside and been waiting some days. At about 600 nmi (690 mi 1,100 km) off the Virginia capes lookouts sighted a possible hostile ship so that Deutschland submerged, altered course back to sea and then approached submerged until about 100 nmi (120 mi 190 km) of the Chesapeake Bay entrance. She did not enter the English channel but took a northern passage around Scotland. She submerged for only 90 miles (140 km) of the 3,800-mile (6,100 km) outbound voyage. ĭeutschland waited a week at Heligoland after the announced sailing date to avoid enemy patrols. She also carried medical drugs, mainly Salvarsan, gemstones, and diplomatic mails, her cargo being worth $1.5 million in total ($37 million in 2022). On her maiden voyage, she carried 750 tons of cargo in total, including 125 tons of highly sought-after chemical dyes, mainly Anthraquinone and Alizarine derivatives in highly concentrated form, some of which were worth as much as $1,254 a pound in 2005 money. Due to the United States' entry into the war, the other five submarine freighters were converted into long-range cruiser submarine (U-kreuzers), equipped with two 150mm deck guns and were known as the Type U 151 class.ĭeutschland and crew in Baltimore, 1916 First journey ĭeutschland departed on her first voyage to the US on 23 June 1916 commanded by Paul König, formerly of the North German Lloyd company. Only two submarines were completed according to the original design: Deutschland and Bremen, which was lost on its maiden voyage, also to the United States. Even submarines, as long as they were unarmed, were to be regarded as merchant vessels and accordingly would be permitted to trade.
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The US, under diplomatic pressure for supposedly showing favoritism while having declared itself neutral, rejected the argument. The cargo capacity was 700 tons (230 tons of rubber could be stored in the free-flooding spaces between the inner and outer hulls ), relatively small compared to surface ships.īritain and France soon protested against the use of submarines as merchant ships, arguing that they could not be stopped and inspected for munitions in the same manner as other cargo vessels. She was constructed without armaments, with a wide beam to provide space for cargo. U-Deutschland at Port of Baltimore, Maryland 10 July 1916, in an image from the New International Encyclopediaĭeutschland was built together with her sister ship Bremen in 1916 for the German Ocean Navigation, Deutsche Ozean-Reederei (DOR), a private shipping company created for the enterprise, a subsidiary company of the North German Lloyd shipping company (now Hapag-Lloyd) and the Deutsche Bank. As U-155, she began a raiding career in June 1917 that was to last until October 1918, sinking 120,434 GRT of shipping and damaging a further 9,080 GRT of shipping. She was the first of seven U-151-class U-boats built and one of only two used as unarmed cargo submarines.Īfter making two voyages as an unarmed merchantman, she was taken over by the German Imperial Navy on 19 February 1917 and converted into U-155, armed with six torpedo tubes and two deck guns. It was developed with private funds and operated by the North German Lloyd Line. 2 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/40 deck guns with 1,688 roundsĭeutschland was a blockade-breaking German merchant submarine used during World War I.Surrendered 24 November 1918 used as exhibition vessel broken up at Rock Ferry in 1922.Ģ × shafts, 2 × 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) propellers
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