German Naval Officers at Ostend Presiding over a Submarine, 1918

German Submarine with Navy Crewmen on Deck, Ostend, 1918

This photograph shows German naval officers on deck of a submarine at Ostend in 1918.

At one end of the deck, a submarine crewman holds the cranking handle of a machine gun. Being an underwater fighting vessel, torpedoes were the submarine’s chief weapon.

On the gangplank a group of German navy officers perform maintenance work.

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