The Story of Our Submarines

ery short description of the German submari

ilities, but is generally a 16-knot (surface speed) boat, with two guns-a 4·1-inch and

gun, one stern and four bow torpedo-tubes, 13 knots surface speed. There is also a "Flanders," t

ern and two bow torpedo-tubes. The Flanders type U-C's are of 180 ton

wo 5·9-inch guns, have a speed of 16 knots, and in some cases a

he second half of the war, in great quantities. On November 11th, 1918, the position was, roughly, as follows: 200 submarines

he spring) 20, in October, 24. The number available for service-excluding Mediterranean boats, school boats, and bo

clean-run look. The sight of a U cruiser in dry dock recalls to one's mind a pair of pictures once published in 'La Vie Parisienne'-a Paris weekly which has done as much to win the war as any other periodical. The first picture showed a "seventy-five" gun, and standing beside it a girl built on clearly thoroughbred lines, balancing a c