Warship Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020: That time one of the Kaiser’s U-Boats Went to Memphis

Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places. – Christopher Eger

Warship Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020: That time one of the Kaiser’s U-Boats Went to Memphis

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog NH 42484

Here we see the German UB-III class coastal submarine, SM UB-88, photographed in New York Harbor after she passed the Statue of Liberty in the distance, on 27 April 1919, just after she arrived from Harwich. As you note by the U.S. ensign, she is under new management despite the Maltese crosses on her sail.

Built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg, UB-88 (Yard Werk…