Unterseeboot 151 (1917)

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Unterseeboot 151 (U-151) was one of the World War I German Type U 151 U-boats.

She was built at Reiherstiegwerft in Hamburg and launched on April 4, 1917, and commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine. From 1917 until the Armistice in November 1918 she was part of the submarine cruiser flotilla, and responsible for the sinking of 51 ships.

Under the command of Korvetten-Kapitan Heinrich von Nostitz und Jänckendorf, U-151 covered nearly 11,000 miles in 94 days. She sank six ships in one day off the coast of New Jersey. In addition, she intercepted the Norwegian freighter Vindeggen off Cape Hatteras where she seized its cargo of copper ingots (needed by the German military machine) in exchange for his boat's iron ballast. Jänckendorf was noted for following the traditional rules of “cruiser warfare,” letting his targets be evacuated before sinking them.

At the end of the war she was surrendered to France at Cherbourg, where she was turned into a target ship, and sank on June 7, 1921.

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USS Von Steuben, one of the ships she unsuccessfully attacked in 1918.

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