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Sunday, 12 January 2025

German submarine U-53 off the St. Kilda Islands, United Kingdom in 1917

U52-62 armed with 2 deck guns appearance©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com


Morning watch. Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Type U 51 submarine. Ordered on 23 August 1914, laid down by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany with yard number 235 on 17 March 1915, launched on 1 Feburary 1916, commissioned on 22 April 1916, surrendered on 1 December 1918, sold on 3 March 1919 and broken up at Swansea, England in 1919. 

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