Germany’s High Sea Fleet, able to sortie from its protected anchorages only at significant risk, was reduced to relying on its destroyers, submarines, merchant raiders and naval air service to carry on the naval offensive.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917 – 1918Īs Marc Milner recently explained in the context of the Second World War, ‘the first line of defense of trade was always the main battle fleet.’ What was true in 1939 was true in 1914. The day is coming! Unterseeboot before London.
