Postcard of a cross-section of the German mine-laying submarine UC5, captured by the British.

Captured German UC5, mine-laying submarine. by Authority of the Admiralty, July 1916.



Areal 2 wires

Jumping wires

Periscope

Telescopic mast Height ???? feet

Steering wheel fitted to ????

Main vent from tank

Waterline

Vertical rudder

After trimming tank

Silencer

Engine room; engine; electric motors and diesel Benz motors

Tank; oil fuel tanks

Accumulators??? 70 in number???

Ballast keel; 18.3 ?? tons

Hand wheel

Kingston valves

Ballast tanks tons; safety weight

Accumulators

Ballast keel

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Sunday, November 26, 1916

"26th November [1916]

Rumania is under even greater threat of invasion. The Government is said to have left Bucharest.

In Belgium the deportations of unemployed, and even, it is reported, of other persons, grow more and more widespread.

In France and England the problem of supplies has taken on a serious aspect.

The Somme offensive is dying slowly, without the General Staff daring to admit it. The submarines are becoming increasingly active.

The prospects of peace are more and more remote, but the speeches remain just as impassioned."

Quotation Context

Summary of the bleak situation facing the Entente Allies as 1916 drew to a close, the entry from the war diary of Albert, King of the Belgians, November 26, 1916. Romania was then being invaded by a German-Austro-Hungarian army that had broken through the Carpathian Mountains to the west, and by a German-Bulgarian-Turkish army to the east and south that had just crossed the Danube River and threatened the Romanian capital of Bucharest. German authorities were deporting Belgians to Germany as forced labor. Shortages in France and the United Kingdom had not approached those that faced Germany and Austria-Hungary, but German submarine activity had increased and threatened supplies of food and war materiel, particularly from the United States. The Anglo-French offensive on the Somme was ended in November with little gain and over 620,000 Allied casualties. The Americans, led by recently re-elected President Woodrow Wilson, were promoting peace, and Germany would soon make a proposal that France and Britain would immediately dismiss.

Source

The War Diaries of Albert I King of the Belgians by Albert I, page 129, copyright © 1954, publisher: William Kimber

Tags

1916-11-26, November, 1916,