What was the name of the first ship Germany sank with a submarine?
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In which war, WWI or WWII?
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Water is allowed into the submarine as ballast and this weighs it down allowing it to submerge, when it needs to rise air is forced into the ballast tanks, displacing the water and reducing the weight of the ship causing it to rise.
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boat A because the other one sunk before the finish
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submarines .. looking for fish..
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Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Saturday in Shrewsbury, Mass. She was 99.\n\nHer death was reported by Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel, a funeral home in Worcester, Mass.\n\nMs. Asplund, who was just 5 when she sailed on the Titanic, lost her father and three brothers, including a twin, when the ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. \n\nMs. Asplund's mother, Selma, and another brother, Felix, who was 3, also survived the sinking on the early morning of April 15, 1912.\n\nMs. Asplund shunned publicity and rarely spoke about the events.\n\nAt least two other survivors are living. They are Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, England, who was 10 months old, and Elizabeth G. Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old.\n\nThe Asplund family boarded the ship in Southampton as third-class passengers on their way back to Worcester from their ancestral homeland, Sweden, where they had spent several years.\n\nMs. Asplund's mother described the sinking in an interview with The Worcester Telegram shortly after she and her two children arrived in the city.\n\nSelma Asplund said the family went to the Titanic's upper deck after the ship struck the iceberg.\n\n"I could see the icebergs for a great distance around," she said. "It was cold and the little ones were cuddling close to one another and trying to keep from under the feet of the many excited people. \n\n"My little girl, Lillie, accompanied me, and my husband said 'Go ahead, we will get into one of the other boats.' He smiled as he said it."\n\nBecause the family lost all of their possessions and money, the city of Worcester held a fund-raiser and a benefit concert that together brought in about $2,000 for the surviving Asplunds.\n\nLillian Asplund never married and worked at secretarial jobs in the Worcester area most of her life. \n\nShe retired early to care for her mother, who was described as having never recovered from the disaster.\n\nSelma Asplund died on the 52nd anniversary of the sinking in 1964 at age 91. Felix Asplund died on March 1, 1983, at age 73.
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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It was a ship in WWII. That is all i know. THANKS.
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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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Germany...unfortunately..
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they said that a torpedo exploaded in the formost compartment.but the warhead of a torpedo never exploads by itself.so ,there are 2 posibilities.\n1.either there was uncontrolable electrical fire(that is common in submarines)that led to the explossion.\n2.or there was a clendestine act by a suicide sailor since the war in checin was in its peak,and the investigations revealed that at least one of the sailors was a chechin.
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Hope the following helps!\n\nVOLENDAM 1922 \nwas built by Harland & Wolff, Glasgow (engines by Harland & Wolff, Belfast) in 1922. She was a 15,434 gross ton ship, overall length 575ft x beam 67.3ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 15 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 263-1st, 436-2nd and 1,200-3rd class. Purchased by Holland America Line while under construction, she was launched on 6th July 1922 after attempts on 23rd and 24th June had failed. Her maiden voyage started on 4th Nov.1922 when she sailed from Rotterdam for New York. In May 1926 she was refitted to carry 1st, 2nd, tourist and 3rd class passengers, April 1930 to 1st, tourist and 3rd class and Feb.1936 to cabin, tourist and 3rd class. Her last Rotterdam - New York voyage commenced 5th Apr.1940 and on 30th Aug.1940 she was torpedoed by a German submarine 200 miles from Bloody Foreland when carrying child evacuees to Canada. Beached on the Isle of Bute, she was repaired and in July 1941 became a troopship. Returned to Rotterdam in July 1945, she was partly reconditioned and in 1946 carried Dutch troops to Indonesia. In 1947 she was used in the Australia emigrant service and in June 1948 made her first Rotterdam - Quebec sailing for the Netherlands government with capacity for 1,500 single class passengers. In Sep.1948 she started her first Rotterdam - New York sailing and commenced her last voyage on this route in Feb.1951. In Oct.1951 she made her last Rotterdam - Quebec - Rotterdam voyage and in 1952 was scrapped at Hendrik Ido Ambacht. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3,p.914]
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Welcome!  USS England DE-635 served in World War II and distinguished herself in antisubmarine warfare by sinking six enemy submarines in two weeks. USS England DLG/CG-22 served our country for over 30 years throughout the Cold War, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Both ships carry the name of John Charles England who lost his life on board USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941. \n\n\nde 635 and the dlg/cg-22\nhttp://www.ussengland.net/
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Germany: General Alfred Jodl signs official surrender of Germany on 08 May 1945. \n\nJapan: General Douglas MacArthur accepts surrender of Japan on 02 September 1945.
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I presume you mean "unrestricted" submarine warfare.\n\nThe short answer was to win the war.  A better answer was because the English blockade of of Germany had the effect of starving the German populace of both food and resources.\n\nDuring WW1, the British Navy was the most powerful force in the world.  The German surface Navy could not hope to be an effective counter to it, so Germany had to resort to tactics other than traditional surface conflict.  Submarines or Unterseebooten (U-Boats) were one means employed by the Germans.  U-Boats were the "Stealth Bombers" of thier day.  They could sneak up on surface ships undetected, and sink them with torpedoes.\n\nGermany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare was originally instituted to combat the overwhelming superiority of the English Navy, but when they started sinking un-armed vessels with other nations peoples on board (specifically Americans) this helped draw America into the war.  When the American's arrived, it tipped the balance in favor of the allies ultimately losing the war for Germany.
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NO. The main sea battle was the battle of Jutland\n\nFourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss of life. Jellicoe tried to cut the Germans off from their base in the hope of continuing the battle in the morning, but under cover of darkness Scheer crossed the wake of the British fleet and returned to port.\n\nFor the British, the outcome was a marginal tactical gain. Although they had lost more ships and had not destroyed the German fleet as intended, the Germans had retreated to port and the British were in command of the area. At a strategic level the outcome was more clear cut. The damaged British ships were restored to operational use more quickly than the German ships. However, the High Seas Fleet remained active and its presence as a fleet in being prevented a complete blockade of Germany. \n\nIt was a stalemate with German Fleet in PORT.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland\n\nThe land war ended after 4 years of stalemate,on August 15, General Haig called a halt and began planning a new offensive in Albert. This Second Battle of the Somme began on August 21. Some 130,000 United States troops were involved, along with soldiers from Third and Fourth British Armies. It was an overwhelming success for the Allies. The Second German Army was pushed back over a 55 kilometer (34 mi) front, and by September 2, the Germans were back to the Hindenburg Line, which was their starting point in 1914.\n\nLudendorff had decided, by October 1, that Germany had two ways out of the War—total annihilation or an armistice.\n\nThe German army could no longer fight. Americans were arriving and the Germans had run out of men horses and equipment. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
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Sorry about that last answer. Nice answer on my Stalingrad question, by the way.\n HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier in the world. The design was based on that of a cruiser and the ship was intended for a similar scouting role. She was built by Armstrong Whitworth, laid down 15 January 1918 and launched 11 September 1919. She was subsequently commissioned in July 1923. After a distinguished wartime career she was sunk 9 April 1942. \n\n\nHMS Hermes was designed as a carrier from the start, although not with the benefit of operational experience. World War I slowed construction and although the ship was launched in 1919 she was not commissioned for another 5 years. \n  \n  At the commencement of war in September 1939, the British Home Fleet deployed aircraft carriers to seek out and destroy German submarines: HMS Ark Royal off the northwestern approaches to the British Isles, HMS Courageous and HMS Hermes off the southwestern approaches. Courageous was sunk on 17 September 1939 by a torpedo and Hermes returned to port. She maintained her brief service in Home waters for a while after the loss of both Courageous and Glorious. \n\n \nGun crew loading 5.5 inch guns, which in the Royal Navy are only found on Furious and Hermes \nwhere they are the main armament,  and on the battle cruiser Hood\n\nWith a small aircraft complement, light protection and anti-aircraft armament, limited high-speed endurance, and stability problems caused by the large starboard island, with fuel having to be carefully distributed to balance the ship, Hermes was deemed unsuitable for operations in European waters, and was consequently employed in trade protection in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans until March 1942.  As the French had no aircraft carriers Hermes was then posted to Brest to operate with the French navy out of Dakar, French West Africa for approximately six months. When Vichy France took over, the Admiralty ordered Hermes out of Dakar to patrol the immediate area to keep a close watch on Vichy French naval movements. Her only fleet operation was on 8 July 1940, when her Swordfish aircraft attacked the Vichy French battleship Richelieu at Dakar and scored one torpedo hit. \n\nShortly afterwards during the middle watch she was in collision with the AMC Corfu; lead ship of a convoy which came out of Freetown, which resulted in her steaming to Simonstown in South Africa for a more permanent repair. Following which she was deployed with our aircraft as shadow ship to prevent the pocket battleship Graf Spee from escaping to the South Atlantic. She then went on patrol on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea and finally to the Persian Gulf. Some of her crew members and ratings from other ships, were landed in Basra to take over the running of the port and man commandeered craft to patrol the river Shat-el-Arab, between Iraq and Iran. After about eight months, troops from the Indian and Ghurka regiments invaded Iran. They then had to take over the naval base at Khoramshah and to repair the sabotaged machinery. \n\n \nHMS Hermes sinking following the attack by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon, 9 April 1942\n\nHMS Hermes while heading in convoy from Trincomali to the Maldive Islands, was attacked by the Japanese First Air Fleet's 50 Aichi D3Al aircraft (soon to be named VAL by the Allies) from the Japanese carriers Akagai (flagship), Hiryu, and Soryu, which sank her and also sank a destroyer, corvette and two tankers, southeast of Trincomalee, Ceylon on 9 April 1942. Akagi had been the flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941. \n\nThe Japanese Fleet went on to attack Darwin on its return to Japan. Akagi and Hiryu were later scuttled and sunk by US dive bombers and Soryu hit by three bombs and exploded on 5 June 1942 in the Battle of Midway. \n\nThe wreck of the Hermes is located in the Indian Ocean off Batticaloa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). \n\n \nHiryu burning after Battle of Midway: \nFor more information and phot
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US ships are named after the 1st of the class, Los Angeles was the 1st of its class, Typhoon is named by the US Navy cause the Russians don't tell us their proper names. Also Nimitz Class Carriers, USS Nimitz was the 1st. The USS Seawolf is the next generation of Submarine, but sadly there will be only one due to budget cuts. To correct the poster after me I just found out there are actually 3 Seawolf subs, The Jimmy Carter is the 3rd http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn23.htm