SM ''U-48'') and combined with the ''U'' for ''Unterseeboot'' would be translated as ''His Majesty's Submarine''., group=Note was one of the 329 submarines serving in the

Imperial German Navy The Imperial German Navy or the Imperial Navy () was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which was mainly for coast defence. Kaise ...

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. ''U-48'' was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the

First Battle of the Atlantic The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atla ...

. On 24 November 1917 she ran aground on

Goodwin Sands Goodwin Sands is a sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying off the Deal coast in Kent, England. The area consists of a layer of approximately depth of fine sand resting on an Upper Chalk platform belonging to the same geologi ...

. There she was fired on by . ''U-48'' was scuttled and abandoned. HMS ''Gipsy'' continued to fire, killing 19. 17 were taken prisoner.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:U0048 World War I submarines of Germany 1915 ships Ships built in Danzig U-boats commissioned in 1916 Maritime incidents in 1917 U-boats scuttled in 1917 U-boats sunk by British warships World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea Type U 43 submarines