U.S. warplanes blasted the U-boat during target practice.
A team of shipwreck hunters has discovered an extraordinary sunken vessel off the East Coast of the United States: the wreck of a World War I German U-boat sunk by U.S. warplanes a century ago for target practice.
"We were lucky," Petkovic told Live Science, describing the live video images sent back to their research ship through the tether of the ROV."We were on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and we saw the wreckage. We panned the camera, and the conning tower was right there." The SM U-111 was one of five German U-boats from World War I that were sunk in U.S. waters and it's the last to be rediscovered.
Submarine menaceGermany built the SM U-111 in the northern port city of Kiel in 1916 and it joined the war at sea in early 1918. The submarine made three raids on commercial shipping vessels in the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and sank at least three Allied merchant ships. "Importantly for the Allies, had it not been for the experience gained in 1917 and 1918 in particular, the campaign against the U-boats in World War II would have proven more of a challenge," he said.
In addition, the submarine had only German signage, so the U.S. crew didn't know how to operate the vessel's gyro-compass, and had to navigate with a magnetic compass; and a plug in an open valve made of a"hard, gummy substance," secretly installed by German saboteurs, dissolved in the seawater four nights into the voyage, flooding and almost sinking the vessel.
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