SM U-52


SM U-52 was one of 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.
U-52 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
U-52 was noted for sinking two warships, the first warship being the Royal Navy's light cruiser, sunk in the North Sea on August 19, 1916 at. Thirty-eight men were lost.
The sinking of Nottingham was an important event in the German Imperial Navy's action of August 19.
At that time Otto Ciliax was watch officer on board the submarine. He later became an admiral in the Kriegsmarine.
U-52s second warship kill was the French battleship, sunk west of Portugal at. on 26 November 1916. All 648 men were lost as the torpedo ignited a magazine and the ship sank within seconds.

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