On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.
While on the subject of signals, Bargsten spoke of a message that Dönitz sent to Günther Prien on the occasion of the birth of Prien’s daughter.
Gunther Schuller | Günther Anders | Prien | Lothar-Günther Buchheim | John Gunther | Hans F. K. Günther | Günther Porod | Prien am Chiemsee | John Gunther Dean | Günther XLI | Gunther von Hagens | Gunther von Fritsch | Günther Schwab | Günther Oettinger | Gunther Kress | Günther Förg | Anton Günther II | Günther Uecker | Gunther Uecker | Günther Prien | Gunther, Margrave of Merseburg | Günther Jauch | Gunther Forg | Gunther | Bob Gunther | U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien | Rita Gunther McGrath | Matthäus Günther | Jyllian Gunther | John Günther I |
In 1958, as one of the few U-boats still in existence, G-7 was used in the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien about Gunther Prien and his U-47.