2 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/40 deck guns with 1,688 rounds
Service record
Part of:
U-Kreuzer Flotilla
19 February 1917 – 14 November 1918
Commanders:
Kptlt. Karl Meusel
19 February – 5 September 1917
K.Kapt. Erich Eckelmann
6 September 1917 – 31 May 1918
K.Kapt. Ferdinand Studt
1 June – 14 November 1918
Operations:
3 patrols
Victories:
43 merchant ships sunk (120,434 GRT)
3 merchant ships damaged (9,080 GRT)
Deutschland was a blockade-breaking German merchant submarine used during World War I. It was developed with private funds and operated by the North German Lloyd Line. She was the first of seven U-151-class U-boats built and one of only two used as unarmed cargo submarines.
After making two voyages as an unarmed merchantman, she was taken over by the German Imperial Navy on 19 February 1917 and converted into U-155, armed with six torpedo tubes and two deck guns. As U-155, she began a raiding career in June 1917 that was to last until October 1918, sinking 120,434 GRT of shipping and damaging a further 9,080 GRT of shipping.
^Gröner 1991, pp. 20–21.
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