WW1 German Postcard shoing a U-Boot / U Boat bringing a captured merchant ship into harbour

A patriotic art card, postally unused, showing a captured merchant ship being escorted by its captor into port. Whether this was an actual event or propaganda to put the U Boot arm in a better light, I cannot say, but the truth was much likely that it was sunk at sea. In World War I, U-boats initially followed "prize rules," surfacing to stop merchant ships, inspect them, and evacuate crews before scuttling them. Over 6,600 ships were sunk, with only about 100 taken as prizes.

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