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SM UB-115
SM ''UB-115'' was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (german: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 May 1918 as SM ''UB-115''.) and combined with the ''U'' for ''Unterseeboot'' would be translated as ''His Majesty's Submarine''., group=Note She was the only German submarine commissioned with the number ''115''. ''UB-115'' was sunk by British warships, including and , and the rigid airship R29 at using depth charges and aerial bombs. Construction She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 4 November 1917. ''UB-115'' was commissioned in the spring the next year under the command of ''Oblt.z.S.'' Reinhold Thomsen. Like all Type UB III submarines, ''UB-115'' carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a deck gun. ''UB-115'' would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . ''UB-115'' ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a "presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
