England's Distress: Postcard map of England and Ireland with the restricted zone Germany proclaimed around the islands, showing the ships destroyed by submarine in the 12 months beginning February 1, 1917.

Englands Not

12 Monate uneingeschränkten

U-Bootskrieges auf dem nördlichen See kriegsschauplatz

Alle durch Minen und vor dem 1. Februar 1917 vernichteten Schiffe sind in dieser Karte nicht enthalten.

Sperrgebietsgrenzen



Bedeutet ein durch die Tätigkeit unserer U-Boote versenktes Schiffe ohne Berücksichtigung seine Grosse

Die Eintragungen der Schiffe entsprechen dem Versunkungsort.



England's distress

Unqualified 12 months

Submarine warfare in the North Sea theater

All ships destroyed by mines of before February 1, 1917 are not included in this map.

restricted zone boundaries



[Sunken ship symbol] indicates a ship sunk by the actions of our submarines without taking into account the size of the vessel. The records correspond to the ships' place of operations.



Reverse:

Auf Anregung Sr. Majestät des Kaisers

i. Auftr. des Admiralstabes d. Rais. Marine zu Gunsten der Sinterbliebenen der Besatzungen von U-Booten, Minensuch- und Vorpostenbooten herausgegeben vom Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland

Faber'sche Buchdruckerei, Magdeburg.



At the suggestion of His Majesty the Emperor

his commission of Naval Staff Rais d. Navy issued in favor of the sintering relatives of the crews of submarines, minesweepers and outpost boats by the Association for Germans abroad



Faber'sche book printing, Magdeburg.

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Friday, May 11, 1917

"For three years before America's entrance into the War, the German submarines had hemmed in the British Isles, destroying British shipping at a rate which threatened its complete extinction. Though boasting a Navy equal in tonnage to any other two navies in the world, the British, nevertheless, were unable to cope successfully with the German submarine peril.

It is an open secret that certain statesmen of Great Britain were on the verge of despair and meditating peace overtures to Germany in that crucial month of May, 1917, when Admiral Sims' Torpedo Fleet came to the rescue and saved the Empire of Great Britain from certain disaster.

'Our backs are to the wall,' the leaders of the British Admiralty informed Admiral Sims; 'our losses are twice as great as we have dared to publish to the world. We cannot hold out three months longer.'"

Quotation Context

When Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1, 1917, it expanded the war zone it had declared around the United Kingdom two years earlier to cover the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines of all Allied nations. The first American destroyers reached Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland on May 4, a division of six ships under the command of Joseph Taussig that had left Boston on April 24. Destroyers were crucial for anti-submarine warfare and convoying transports and other ships.

Source

King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 295, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922

Tags

1917-05-11, 1917, May