U-152, a 1512-ton U-151 class cruiser-type submarine built at Hamburg as part of Germany's World War I shipbuilding effort, was commissioned in October 1917. Initially intended as a submersible merchantman for transporting critical war materials through the British blockade, she was converted to a combat ship while under construction. U-152 was actively employed in the Atlantic during the last year of the conflict. Among her victims were two American schooners, Julia Frances (sunk on 27 January 1918) and A.E. Whyland (sunk on 13 March 1918), the Norwegian bark Stifinder (sunk on 13 October 1918), and USS Ticonderoga. The latter was sunk, with heavy casualties among her crew and passengers, on 30 September 1918. The submarine also fought a gun battle with USS George G. Henry on 29 September. After returning to Germany in November 1918, at the end of her final wartime cruise, U-152 went to Harwich, England, where she was surrendered to the British. She sank in 1921, while on her way to be scrapped.
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Page made 29 September 2006
Introductory text updated 18 December 2006