Unterseeboot 20

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Unterseeboot 20 or U-20 has been the name of several German submarines or U-boats during the First World War, the Second World War and in the post-war Bundesmarine.

• Unterseeboot 20 (1912) was a submarine built in 1912 for service in the First World War, and grounded and blown up in 1916. This U-Boat sunk the passenger ship Lusitania.
  • During the First World War, Germany also possessed the submarines:
    • Unterseeboot B-20, built in 1916 and sunk in 1917.
    • Unterseeboot C-20, built in 1916 and surrendered in 1919.

• Unterseeboot 20 (1936) was a submarine built in 1936, and scuttled in 1944 during the Second World War.

• Unterseeboot 20 (S199) is a Type 206 submarine of the Bundesmarine, built in 1974, and scrapped in 1996 and sold to Indonesia.