Object Details
- Book Title
- Collier's photographic history of the European War.
- Caption
- German submarine.
- Educational Notes
- Even for a tough military battleship like the USS Delaware, the ocean waves are a force to be reckoned with. The USS Delaware was an elite type of large, metal battleship called a dreadnought that could travel at high speeds and had long-range guns. This meant that they could launch attacks from a further distance, making them useful during warfare. Dreadnoughts werent the only formidable crafts in the water during World War I (1914-1918), though. Another tough type of naval vessel used was the submarine. Submarines can submerse deep into the water, and unless theyre detected on sonar radar, submarines are capable of launching silent attacks or ambushes on other submarines by using their torpedoes. Among the many naval battles throughout the war, one important event at sea involved a submarine when a German u-boat sunk the non-military British passenger cruise ship, the RMS Lusitania, in 1915.
- Publication Date
- 1917
- Image ID
- SIL-39088000183723_collierquotspho00reyn_0038
- Catalog ID
- 51592
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Type
- Photographic prints
- Publication Place
- New York (N.Y.)
- Publisher
- Collier
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- Topic
- World War I
- WWI
- War
- Navy
- Battleship
- Delaware
- Water
- Dreadnought
- Submarines
- Torpedo
- Lusitania
- United States
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Language
- English
- Record ID
- silgoi_104026
