from ERNST SCHMIDT (10-+-1983)
At the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in June 1935 Germany volunteered to restrict the strength of its Navy to 35% of that of the British Navy? However, the U-Boat arm was restricted to 45%.
Germany built U-Boats for the Finnish and the Turkish Navies between both World Wars?
In Spring of 1917 in World War I, German U-Boats sank 800 ships, totaling nearly two million tons?
The convoy system began in 1917 to give more protection.
The normal sized medium U-Boat (Type VII-C) had only 769 tons (871 tons submerged)?
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