1919: Even a beached German U-boat posed a real threat

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SM U-118 was a 267-foot mine-laying submarine, one of the 329 U-boats which served in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.

Commissioned in May 1918, U-118 sank two British ships in its short career before the...

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