Chapter 131 - 131: The U-100 class Submarine

Count Tirpitz did not stare at the slipway because he had never seen a submarine before.

He stared because he had—and this was not that.

Germany already possessed a U-boat. U-1, launched years ago, commissioned in 1906—built to teach the Navy what it could about submerged machinery, cramped steel, and the uncomfortable truth that the sea had more layers than admirals liked to admit.

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