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SM U-24

SM U-24 was a Type U 23, Built at the Shipyard Germaniawerft, Kiel (Werk 178) Ordered 18 Mar 1911, Laid down 5 Feb 1912, Launched 24 May 1913 and Commissioned 6 Dec 1913.
Commanders.
6 Dec 1913 - 3 Jun 1916 Rudolf Schneider.
4 Jun 1916 - 10 Jul 1917 Walter Remy.
11 Jul 1917 - 1 Aug 1917 Otto von Schubert
Career 7 patrols.
1 Aug 1914 - 11 Aug 1917 III Flotilla.
24 Aug 1917 - 11 Nov 1918 training Flotilla
Successes 34 ships sunk with a total of 106,122 tons.
3 ships damaged with a total of 14,318 tons.
1 ship taken as prize with a total of 1,925 tons.
1 warship sunk with a total of 15,000 tons.

26 Oct 1914 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Admiral Ganteaume (damaged)4,590 fr. The first to attack an unarmed merchant ship without warning. The SS Admiral Ganteaume was torpedoed but was able to be towed to port.
1 Jan 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Formidable 15,000 br
2 Apr 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Lochwood 2,042 br
4 Apr 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider City Of Bremen 1,258 br
10 Apr 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider The President 647 br
11 Apr 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Frederic Franck (d.) 973 fr
27 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Edith 97 br
27 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Indrani 3,640 br
27 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Lucena 243 br
28 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Dumfriesshire 2,622 br
28 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Armenian 8,825 br
29 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Scottish Monarch 5,043 br
30 Jun 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Thistlebank 2,411 nw
1 Jul 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider L.C. Tower 518 br
1 Jul 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Sardomene 2,000 it
1 Jul 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Welbury 3,591 br
6 Jul 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Ellen 169 da
7 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Geiranger 1,081 nw
12 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Osprey 310 br
13 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Cairo 1,671 br
19 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Arabic 15,801 br
19 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Dunsley 4,930 br
19 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider New York City 2,970 br
19 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider St. Olaf 277 br
24 Aug 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Sinsen (prize) 1,925 nw
25 Dec 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Van Stirum 3,284 br
26 Dec 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Cottingham 513 br
26 Dec 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Ministre Bernaert 4,215 be
28 Dec 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider Huronian (damaged) 8,755 br
28 Dec 1915 U 24 Rudolf Schneider El Zorro 5,989 br
11 Jul 1916 U 24 Walter Remy Nellie Nutten 174 br
30 Oct 1916 U 24 Walter Remy Nellie Bruce 192 br
10 Dec 1916 U 24 Walter Remy Agder 305 nw
21 Mar 1917 U 24 Walter Remy Stanley 3,987 br
22 Mar 1917 U 24 Walter Remy Svendsholm 1,998 nw
27 Mar 1917 U 24 Walter Remy Glenogle 7,682 br
28 Mar 1917 U 24 Walter Remy Cannizaro 6,133 br
18 Jun 1917 U 24 Walter Remy Elele 6,557 br
18 Jun 1917 U 24 Walter Remy English Monarch 4,947 br

Fate 22 Nov 1918 - Surrendered. Broken up at Swansea in 1922.
There was another U 24 in World War Two.
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 24 Sep 1936 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 10 Oct 1936.

1st January 1915 HMS Formidable lost
HMS Formidable
Under the command of Vice-Admiral Commanding, Channel Fleet, Sir Lewis Bayly, the 5th Battle Squadron spent 31 December participating in gunnery exercises off the Isle of Portland, supported by the light cruisers Topaze and Diamond. After the exercises, that night the fleet remained at sea on patrol even though submarine activity had been reported in the area. With rough sea conditions and the wind increasing, submarine attacks would have been difficult to carry out and so were not thought to be a significant threat. Formidable was steaming at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) at the rear of the squadron off Portland Bill just 20 nmi (23 mi; 37 km) from Start Point, when at 0220 on 1 January 1915 a torpedo from U-24 struck the number one boiler port side. It was thought that she might be saved by reaching the coast but by about 0240 she had taken a list of 20° to starboard and the Captain Noel Loxley gave the order to abandon ship. Darkness and worsening weather made it difficult to get the men and boats over the side; some small boats being thrown into the water upside down.
At about 0305, Formidable was struck by a second torpedo on the starboard side. Amidst a 30 ft (9.1 m) swell the pinnaces and launch along with other boats (one of which capsized soon after) were launched and the two light cruisers came alongside and managed to pick up 80 men in the deteriorating weather. By 0445, she seemed in imminent danger of capsizing and a few minutes later she rolled over onto many of the men in the water and sank quickly. Captain Loxley remained on the bridge along with his Fox terrier Bruce, calmly overseeing the evacuation of the ship.
In rough seas near Berry Head, a Brixham trawler Provident, under the command of Captain W. Piller picked up the men from one pinnace before it sank, saving 71 members of the crew. The second pinnace took off another 70 men, of which 48 were brought ashore alive after it was eventually spotted from the shore the following night, 22 hours after the sinking. The loss of life of Formidable was 35 officers (including Captain Loxley) and 512 men from a complement of 780. The body of Captain Loxley's dog Bruce, a war dog washed ashore and was buried in a marked grave in Abbotsbury Gardens in Dorset.
Formidable was the third British battleship to be sunk and the second to be sunk by enemy action, during the First World War.
The Royal Navy's Formidable-class battleships were an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s. The class is often further divided into a separate London class, and the London class sometimes is divided further into a separate Queen class.
HMS Formidable, the third of four ships of that name to serve in the Royal Navy, was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. Commissioned in 1904, she served initially with the Mediterranean Fleet, transferring to the Channel Fleet in 1908. In 1912, she was assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron, which was stationed at Nore.
Following the outbreak of World War I, the squadron conducted operations in the English Channel, and was based at Sheerness to guard against a possible German invasion. Despite reports of submarine activity, early in the morning of 1 January 1915, whilst on exercise in the English Channel, Formidable sank after being hit by two torpedoes. She was the second British battleship to be sunk by enemy action during the First World War.
World War I
At the beginning of the First World War, Formidable and the 5th Battle Squadron were based at Portland and assigned to the Channel Fleet to defend the English Channel. After covering the safe transportation of the British Expeditionary Force to France in August 1914, Formidable took part in the transportation of the Portsmouth Marine Battalion to Ostend on 25 August.
On 14 November, Formidable and the other ships of the 5th Battle Squadron were rebased at Sheerness because of concern that a German invasion of Great Britain was in the offing. The squadron was relieved by Duncan-class battleships of the 6th Battle Squadron and transferred to Portland on 30 December.
Lassie
According to writer Nigel Clarke in the Shipwreck Guide to Dorset and South Devon, the original "Lassie" who inspired so many films and television episodes was a rough-haired crossbreed who saved the life of a sailor during World War I.
Half collie, Lassie was owned by the landlord of the Pilot Boat, a pub in the port of Lyme Regis. On New Year’s Day in 1915 the Royal Navy battleship Formidable was torpedoed by a German submarine off Start Point in South Devon, with the loss of more than 500 men. In a storm that followed the accident, a life raft containing bodies was blown along the coast to Lyme Regis. In helping to deal with the crisis, the local pub in Lyme Regis, called the Pilot Boat, offered its cellar as a mortuary.
When the bodies had been laid out on the stone floor, Lassie, a crossbred collie owned by the pub owner, found her way down amongst the bodies, and she began to lick the face of one of the victims, Able Seaman John Cowan. She stayed beside him for more than half an hour, nuzzling him and keeping him warm with her fur. To everyone’s astonishment, Cowan eventually stirred. He was taken to hospital and went on to make a full recovery. He visited Lassie again when he returned to thank all who saved his life.
The sinking of the ship was a severe blow to Britain during these early years of the war. When the officers heard the story of Lassie and what she did to rescue Cowan, they told it again and again to any reporter who would listen as it was inspirational and heart-warming. Hollywood got hold of the story, and so a star was born.

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