Voyage Of The Deutschland, The First Merchant Submarine

The arrival of the submarine Deutschland in the harbour of New York in July of 1916 produced one of the sensation of the year. How had a U-Boat sailed all the way from Germany to the United States evading all of the counter-measures of the might Royal Navy and the even the U.S. coastal defences?

The captain of the Deutschland, Paul König, was feted as a national hero in Germany and was lauded by t...