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NAVY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY

HISTORICAL SECTION

Publication Number 1

GERMAN SUBMARINE ACTIVITIES ON
THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Published under the direction of

The Hon. JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Secretary of the Navy

Table showing arrivals and departures of German submarines.

Steps taken by the Navy Department to protect shipping along the Atlantic

coast...

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Dispatches from Force commander in Europe giving necessary information to

prepare to meet attacks..

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United States and Allied radio service adequate for transaction of important

official business in case the cables had all been cut......

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Mine-laying operations....

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Submarine mines on the Atlantic coast of the United States..

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Mine-sweeping ships by naval districts......

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Mine-sweeping operations on the Atlantic coast..

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Table No. 1: Vessels destroyed by submarines acting on the surface using gun-

fire and bombs in western Atlantic..

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Table No. 2: Vessels destroyed by submarines submerged and firing torpedoes.

Table No. 3: Vessels damaged or destroyed by mines.

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Appendix

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Folded charts:

1. German submarine activities in the western Atlantic waters.......

2. Enemy mining activities on the Atlantic coast.

In pocket.

In pocket.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The United States Navy's first U-boat capture, German U-58 captured by the United States destroyers U. S. S. Fanning and U. S. S. Nicholson... Frontispiece.

The Deutschland "Mercantile Submarine".

The Deutschland at Baltimore, Md. (Two prints)..

The Deutschland at Baltimore, Md..

The Deutschland at New London, Conn...

The Deutschland leaving for Germany.

Facing page

German U-53 at Newport R. I. U. S. S. Birmingham in the background.........
German U-151 at sea. Taken from the deck of the American S. S. Pinar del Rio.
German U-151 at sea, from the Spanish passenger steamer Isabel de Bourbon..
The interior of a German submarine showing its instruments and high-powered
engines.....

Photographic copy of the receipt given to the master of the American schooner
Hauppauge by Korvettenkapitan v. Nostitz..

Time fuse used on the American schooner Edna by U-151..
Depth charge exploding.........

German submarine at sea.

A German submarine lying near a ship which has just been boarded by the submarine's men..

Smoke-screen defense.

War on hospital ships....

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Receipt given to the master of the Norwegian S. S. San Jose by J. Knoeckel,
Oberleutnant U-156....

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Receipt given to the master of the Swedish S. S. Sydland, by J. Knoeckel,
Oberleutnant U-156...

German U-117 anchored at Washington, D. C., after the war. Used in the
Victory loan campaign.......

German U-boat showing saw-teeth on the bow used for cutting nets.

Sinking of American S. S. Frederick R. Kellogg..

German U-155 (ex-Deutschland) as a war ship.

Large gun mounted on U-155 (ex-Deutschland).

German U-155 (ex-Deutschland) after surrender anchored within the shadow of the famous Tower Bridge, London.....

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U-155 (ex-Deutschland) after the war in the Thames near London..

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Survivors of the U. S. A. C. T. Lucia leaving the ship.......

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Motor boat arriving alongside the U. S. S. Fairfax with a load of survivors from the U. S. A. C. T. Lucia.

Damage to the American tanker Herbert L. Pratt by mine explosion

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U. S. S. San Diego.....

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U. S. S. Minnesota.....

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Damage to the U. S. S. Minnesota by mine explosion.....

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Piece of the mine removed from the U. S. S. Minnesota after mine explosion..

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