What was the name of the first ship Germany sank with a submarine?
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I can't be sure if it was the 1st but...\na trans-atlantic liner known as the Lusitania \nwas sunk by a German u-boat on May 7, 1915.
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i sunk a titanic just a minute ago. ;-)
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GERMANY .... GERMANY ....
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At 02:20 am on April 15th, 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic slipped into the sea and began its descent to the ocean floor.
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The main reason given to the american people was the sinking oo the lousitania however that seems strange since that vessel was sunk two years prior to entering war.The usa was not happy with german naval activity in her area The loss of american lives at sea due to submarine attack.
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1) The Zimmerman Note: A note was sent from Germany to Mexico, stating that if they attacked the US from the inside, they [Germany] would help them retain former territory included but not limited to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.\n\n2) German U-Boat attack: While use of it was an issue, the main problem was that they attacked, without warning, ships believed to be enemy carriers. More often than not, as with the Lusitania, it was a civilian ship.\n\n3) US allies losing (most in part to the above stated U-Boats. No other country had them at the time)
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In the note the Bernstorff announced a re-opened German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare (initially introduced and then rapidly abandoned in 1916 owing to U.S. protests), to take effect the day following the date of the note (i.e. 1 February 1917).  The German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg spoke before the Reichstag on the same day to explain the reasons for the policy.\n\nIn effect the policy set in place a blockade of Britain and her European allies, to be applied to belligerent and neutral shipping alike.  The German government argued that such a policy was implemented only as an aggressive form of defence.\n\nReaction to the policy was rapid; the Allied powers inevitably decried its aggression, as did the U.S. government, which broke off diplomatic relations on 3 February 1917.  On the same day President Woodrow Wilson appeared before Congress to announce his reasons, receiving virtually unanimous support in doing so.
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Following is the beginning of the President’s message to the 65th Congress concerning that war.  The complete message may be found at the source link:\n\nGentlemen of the Congress: \nI have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. \nOn the 3d of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the 1st day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean. That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of last year the Imperial Government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats. The precautions taken were meagre and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe-conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.
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Two more could easily be:\n\nThe American industrial base was providing arms and war goods to the British (mostly because German markets were closed off by the British blockade)\n\nThe sinking of the liner "Lusitania" by a German U-Boat and the death of American passengers helped sway American popular opinion against the Germans.
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Argentina and Germany
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George Bush Sr. flew dive bombers in the pacific during the war and was actually shot down and rescued by a submarine.
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The concept of a boat that would sail under water goes back at least as far as the 16th century. In 1573, an Englishman named William Bourne published a design for a submersible boat that featured a mast that could operate as a snorkel. It does not appear that Bourne ever actually built the vessel, but his ideas influenced others.\n\nIn 1620, a Dutchman living in England named Cornelius van Drebbel built several wooden submarines that could sink just under the surface of the water, where they were propelled by oars and obtained air through tubes to the surface. Details of van Drebbel's submarines are sketchy as he was an extremely secretive man, but reports indicate that he made a number of submarine trips up and down the Thames.\n\nIn the following century and a half, many people made boats that could sink and, sometimes, come back up again. These experiments were often the nautical equivalent of tying on wings and jumping off towers in attempts to fly. Nonetheless, by 1727 at least 14 patents had been issued for submarine designs in England alone.\n\nThese were generally just submersible rowboats, but a few useful features were developed. In 1747, an Englishman named Nathaniel Symons, working from an idea suggested decades earlier, developed a vessel that could sink by letting water into leather bags, and then rise again by twisting the water out of the bags. This was the first known use of the concept of a "ballast tank".\n\nThe first attempt at a submarine that actually seemed worthy of the name was the TURTLE, designed during the American Revolution by David Bushnell, a student at Yale involved in resistance against the British. The precise details of Bushnell's design are not known as all he left behind was a written description. The most common illustration of the TURTLE was drawn over a century later from that description, and some of the features in this illustration are implausible.\n\nThe TURTLE was a one-man craft, shaped like two bowls with tapered lips joined together, with a brass "conning tower" on top that provided portholes to allow the operator to see. The conning tower was capped by a hatch. The submarine was propelled by hand-driven horizontal and vertical propellers and carried a 68 kilogram (150 pound) black powder charge, to be attached to a warship with a hand-driven screw. The charge was detonated by a clockwork timing mechanism that released a spring-loaded hammer to strike a percussion cap.\n\nThe little submarine was kept upright by a lead weight in the bottom, which could be discarded in an emergency. The operator could make the craft sink by letting water into a tank and rise again by pumping it out. He obtained air through valves that closed when the submarine was completely under water. There was enough air to allow it to stay under for about half an hour. The TURTLE was steered by a rudder, and had a compass and barometer for navigation. Handling the propellers, rudder, and all the other gear kept the operator extremely busy.\n\nBushnell proposed to use the TURTLE to attack British vessels that were blockading American ports. Although Bushnell himself wanted to pilot the craft, he fell ill, and substitutes were found. In August 1776, Sergeant Ezra Lee of the American Army took the TURTLE to sea.\n\nThe little submarine was towed towards the British blockaders by two longboats, and then released to move forward on the tide. The tide swept him past his target, the warship HMS EAGLE, and Lee had to wait for the tide to reverse before he could make his way to his target. The screw used to attach the charge could not penetrate the copper sheathing covering the warship's hull and Lee was forced to give up the attack.\n\nWhile he was struggling to return the TURTLE to shore, the British noticed the strange little vessel bobbing on the surface and sent out a boat to investigate. Lee released the charge, activating the clockwork timer. The charge exploded and the British
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US tried to stay neutral for a while.  The US didn't like the unrestricted sub warfare, so after attacks on American merchant ships, Wilson declared war on Germany.
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its complicated.\nUK and US were allies. US helped with industry, which it sailed to UK. germany sunk some ships with US citizen eg the lusitania.\nmostly beacuse a lot of it allies, canada, australia, UK etc were fighting and US interests rested more with them than with Germany
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Germany...unfortunately..
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Germany used this in 2nd World War..it was called Lebensborn
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Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French company DCN and the Spanish company Navantia. The SSK designation is a reference to the United States Navy's hull classification symbol for 'hunter-killer' submarines. The Chilean Navy, Royal Malaysian Navy and the Indian Navy have ordered the Scorpene submarine. The first Scorpene build is the O'higgins, completed in 2005, which is currently the only one in function.