A 15ft (4.6m) sculpture of a German ... U-boats, stretching in convoy for two miles (3km), started arriving at Harwich and Dovercourt on 20 November 1918 - just over a week after Armistice. The ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats ... This would not have made a difference to a WW1 U-boat commander hunting slow merchant ships.

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the salt marshes of Kent lies the metal carcass of a First World War German U-boat. British ships were blockading German ports ...