Cruiser rules, alternatively called prize rules is a colloquial phrase referring to the conventions regarding the attacking of a merchant ship by an armed vessel. Here cruiser is meant in its original meaning of a ship sent on an independent mission such as commerce raiding. A cruiser in modern naval terminology refers to a type of ship rather than its mission. Cruiser rules govern when it is permissible to open fire on an unarmed ship and the treatment of the crews of captured vessels, and are contrasted to unrestricted submarine warfare where submarines attack without warning and do not act to protect crew.
During both world wars, the question was raised of whether or not submarines were subject to cruiser rules. In each war, submarines initially attempted to obey them, but abandoned them as the war progressed.
Cruiserrules, alternatively called prize rules is a colloquial phrase referring to the conventions regarding the attacking of a merchant ship by an armed...
vessels at times, although almost always in accordance with the old cruiserrules. Desperate to gain an advantage on the Atlantic and define a role for...
indiscriminately sinking ships without warning, they asserted that cruiserrules were obsolete, as British merchant ships could be armed and had been...
was signatory, required submarines to abide by prize rules (commonly known as "cruiserrules"). It did not prohibit arming merchantmen, but arming them...
defend itself if armed. Customary naval law (specifically, so called cruiserrules) specified that while enemy warships may be attacked freely, civilian...
was signatory, required submarines to abide by prize rules (commonly known as "cruiserrules"). It did not prohibit arming merchantmen, but arming them...
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Instead, the London Naval Treaty required submarines to abide by "cruiserrules", which demanded they surface, search and place ship crews in "a place...
relating to submarine warfare declared international law (the so-called "cruiserrules") applied to submarines as well as to surface vessels. Also, unarmed...
was signatory, required submarines to abide by prize rules (commonly known as "cruiserrules"). It did not prohibit arming merchantmen, but arming them...
commerce-raiding campaign, and any raiding would be done strictly according to cruiserrules. This view remained the established orthodoxy until the mid-1930s, when...
force them to terms. While the German Navy abandoned the observance of cruiserrules in 1915, this policy was reversed following the outcry over the Lusitania's...
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Allies. He writes, referencing the demand for submarines to follow cruiserrules instead of simply avoiding the war zone: "The problem with the American...
Wegener, stopped the British steamer Nicosian in accordance with the cruiserrules specified by the London Declaration. A boarding party of six men from...
commerce war beginning in late 1914; he further advocated abandoning the cruiserrules that handicapped the German effort, in favor of unrestricted submarine...
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