12 Facts About U-boat campaign

U-boat Campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies.

Also, in the two main surface actions of this period the U-boat campaign was unable to have any effect; the High Seas Fleet was unable to draw the Grand Fleet into a U-boat campaign trap.

German U-boat campaign force was now primarily based at Ostend in Belgium, giving the submarines better access to the sea lanes around England.

U-boat campaign fired a single torpedo which struck the liner aft, and she sank within 10 minutes, with the loss of 44 passengers and crew, 3 of whom were American.

The U-boat campaign got underway in October 1915, when U-33 and U-39, followed later by U-35, were ordered to attack the approaches to Salonika and Kavalla.

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Eight of the top dozen U-boat campaign aces served in the Pola flotilla, including the highest scoring commander of all, Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere.

U-boat campaign's made a second equally successful voyage in autumn of that year.

On 9 January 1917, the Kaiser met with Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and military leaders at Schloss Pless to discuss measures to resolve Germany's increasingly grim war situation; its military U-boat campaign in France had bogged down, and with Allied divisions outnumbering German ones by 190 to 150, there was a real possibility of a successful Allied offensive.

In January 1917, prior to the U-boat campaign, Britain lost 49 ships; in February, after it opened, 105; and in March, 147.

The U-boat campaign arm did not succeed in World War I in developing such a response.

July 1918 witnessed the Attack on Orleans when a U-boat campaign sunk four barges and a tugboat off the coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts by the town of Orleans.

The U-boat campaign fired on the town ineffectually for about an hour before it was fought off by two Navy planes.