German submarine building by Belgian Cockerill shipyard according to the Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 23 February 1915

An item referred to another Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant reporting that according to some returning from Antwerp, Belgium that at the Cockerill shipyard at Antwerp still submarines for Germany were being built. Labourers of another plant near the shipyard wondered why the shipyard was protected by a high wall of the outside world. Using a huge crane were the labourers able to see over the wall. There was a large number of German labourers, navy personnel and some yet not completed submarines visible. Some days was the crane confiscated and used for lowering submarines into the water to inspect the seaworthiness and so on. Afterwards were the approved submarines transported by rail towards Zeebrugge and Ostende unrecognizable packed.