MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | A_most_remarkable_post-war_incident_was_the_washing_up_on_the_rocks_at_Falmouth,_England,_of_two_German_U-boats._They..._-_NARA_-_535915.tif (3000x2027) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: A most remarkable post-war incident was the washing up on the rocks at Falmouth, England, of two German U-boats. They... - NARA - 535915.tif Local identifier 208-PR-10K 1 Office for Emergency Management Office of War Information Overseas Operations Branch New York Office News and Features Bureau 12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945 Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1921 Record group Record Group 208 Records of the Office of War Information 1926 - 1951 Record group ARC 535 Photographs Used in Publications compiled 1943 - 1945 Series ARC 535898 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-208-PR-10K 1 General notes Two German U-Boats grounded near Falmouth in 1921 The one nearer to the camera is UB 86 a UB III-class submarine that was commissioned on 10 November 1917 and made five patrols during the First World War the hull number is still visible It was surrendered to Great Britain on 24 November 1918 It was broken up in situ near Falmouth after 1921 after grounding together with UB 97 UB 106 UB 112 UB 128 and UC 92 The original texts tells that these U-Boats were washed ashore after having been sunk during the war like U 118 at Hastings in 1919 but the lack of deck guns and periscopes shows that these boats were on the way to the breakers Scope and content File unit File unit ARC yes NARA-cooperation PD-USGov German Type UB III submarine 086 World War I submarines of Germany Submarines wrecked Falmouth Cornwall 1921 photographs | ||||