" Rare WWI U-boat cutlass" Why for "U Boat"?

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The SG1911 was issued to vessels whose crews used the Navy P.04 Parabellum as their primary weapon and to the training units associated with those vessels: Torpedo boats, Minesweepers, the I and II Torpedo Divisions and the Minen Abteilung in Cuxhaven.

The many photos of I.T.D. and II.T.D taken after 1912 invariably show the men with P.04s and SG1911s. I have two of them, one from the I.TD and the other unmarked (which would have been on a vessel) and forum member Norme has one from the M.A.

The Belgian scabbard makes sense, since many of these cutlasses wound up with the Belgian Police after 1918.

While it's not impossible that they were used on a U-Boot, I have never seen a photo of one that makes any association between the SG1911 and U-Boots