Tour of the German submarine of World War I era

• Tour of the German submarine of World War I era

During the First World War, Germany to conduct submarine warfare against the allied forces used a fleet of 351 submarines.

Faced with a naval blockade of the British, the Germans in response to February 4, 1915 declared the waters around the British Isles a war zone.

And while their submarines had rather limited success in combating the agile British warships, commercial and passenger vessels operating in a war zone, were a perfect target for torpedoes. The death of passenger ships, such as the transatlantic liner "Lusitania", eventually forced the United States to enter the war on the Allied side.

July 19, 1918 dual rotor U-boat U-boat 110 escorted a merchant vessel in the North Sea near the town of Hartlepool, when because of the depth charges allies was forced to surface. After that, it rammed and sunk the English destroyer H.M.S. Garry.

That same year, she was raised from the bottom and put into dry dock shipyard Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd. in England for the purpose of subsequent recovery.

These photos of her unusually close and sophisticated interior were made before the armistice November 11, 1918, after which it was completely dismantled and sold as scrap metal.

The central post at the stern on the starboard side. The photograph shows a hatch in the well of the periscope and various valves for immersion and emersion.

U.B. 110 in drydock.

Electrical control panel.

electrical control panel.

The aft torpedo room.

The machine room.

electrical control panel.

The central office. The photograph shows a horizontal wheel of the submarine, deep and fuel gauges.

Table and cabinets in the dining room.

Compartment №3, lockers crew.

The front torpedo room.

The four tubes for torpedoes.

A view of the torpedo room from astern. Visible at the top of the beam for lifting torpedoes.

electrical control panel, a view of the engine room and the aft torpedo room.

compartment №6 with bunks.

compartment №5, on the starboard side.

The space for the crew.

The central office. The photograph shows the handle to raise and lower the periscope.

The central office. The photograph shows a depth gauge, a ship's telegraph, valves for diving and surfacing, as well as a horizontal wheel of the submarine.

The central office. The photograph shows the handle for controlling the air temperature and pressure.

The front torpedo room.

The central office. The photograph shows a gyrocompass, a steering shaft, the motor and vocal telegraph tube.

The diesel engine.