The Purpose Of The Naval Luger

[Kiwi]

Originally Posted by gunbugs

(snip). Note they are letting the sailors leave before they sink the ship. They'll probably even bring them aboard and take them prisoner, as opposed to leaving them at sea. Things got a lot more brutal later in the war. Go figure.

Things got more brutal because of the English first sea lord - Winston Churchill.

The English were losing so much shipping that Churchill gave the order to sink any U-boat found on the surface

including boats carrying survivors and the Red Cross on the conning tower.

U-boats then took to sinking by torpedo without surfacing