On 3 January 1917 near Crete, the Huntsend was damaged by a torpedo fired by the German U-boat SM UB-47.
Notwithstanding the special C.R.B. flags flown by ships and enormous banners covering them, there were losses: the Harpalyce returning from Rotterdam after delivering a shipment was torpedoed by the German submarine SM UB-4 in April 1915 with the loss of 15 lives.
While sailing off the coast of Great Yarmouth on 14 August 1915, Gunner Jehan received news that a merchant ship, the Bona Fide, of 59 tons, had been stopped by the German submarine UB-4 and subsequently scuttled with explosives by a boarding party.
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He began the war as a warrant officer and was decorated and commissioned after sinking UB-4.
The fate of UB-107 was the subject of an episode of the documentary television series Deep Sea Detectives: "Mystery U-Boat of WWI".
She was broken up in Toulon in July 1921 after being used for underwater demolition training.
who sailed her to Zeebrugge, arriving on 16 February, the first U-boat of the type to be based there.
When UB-2 sailed to join the Flanders Flotilla in May 1915, she became the only member of her class to not be shipped by rail to Antwerp to join the unit.
UB-5 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to Antwerp for reassembly.
UB-50 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Franz Becker.
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The Britannia was on a voyage to Gibraltar when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar.
National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington: 1984
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A survey of the wreck showed no obvious indication of weapon attack being the cause of loss (although this could not be ruled out; damage assessment expert David Manley (author) determined that shock damage from a depth charge attack could have caused loss through failure of internal seawater systems and hull penetrations that would not be obvious from an external examination).
There are two memorials to him in Chepstow - a painting by Charles Dixon of the events in the Dardanelles, hanging in St Mary's Church; and a naval gun from the German submarine SM UB-91 presented by King George V, which stands in the town's main square beside the war memorial.