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U-21
submarine
U-21 was a U-boat built
for the Imperial German Navy shortly before World War I.
She was one of the very first U-boats to be equipped
with diesel engines. U-21 was built between 1910 and
October 1913. She was armed with four torpedo tubes.
In September 1914, U-21
became the first submarine to sink a ship with a
self-propelled torpedo when she destroyed the cruiser
HMS Pathfinder off the Firth of Forth. She also sank
several transports in the English Channel and the Irish
Sea later in the year, all in accordance with the
cruiser rules then in effect.
In early 1915, U-21 was
transferred to the Mediterranean Sea to support the
Ottoman Empire against the Anglo-French attacks during
the Gallipoli Campaign. Shortly after her arrival, she
sank the British battleships HMS Triumph and HMS
Majestic while they were bombarding Ottoman positions at
Gallipoli. Further successes followed in the
Mediterranean in 1916, including the sinking of the
French armored cruiser Amiral Charner in February.
Throughout 1916, U-21
served in the Austro-Hungarian Navy as U-36, since
Germany was not yet at war with Italy and thus could not
legally attack Italian warships under the German flag.
She returned to Germany in March 1917 to join the
unrestricted commerce war against British maritime
trade. In 1918, she was withdrawn from front line
service and was employed as a training submarine for new
crews. She survived the war and sank while under tow by
a British warship in 1919.
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-17" long
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