RMS Mauretania (1906) and were requested by the British government to become armed merchant cruisers, but their huge size and massive fuel consumption made them unsuitable for the duty, and they resumed their civilian service on 11 August. Later, due to lack of passengers crossing the Atlantic, "Mauretania" was laid up in Liverpool until May 1915 at the time that "Lusitania" was sunk by a German U-boat. "Mauretania" was about to fill the void left by "Lusitania", but she was ordered by the British government to serve as a troop ship to carry British soldiers during the Gallipoli Campaign. She avoided becoming prey
7th U-boat Flotilla 7th U-boat Flotilla The 7th U-boat Flotilla (German "7. Unterseebootsflottille"), also known as Wegener Flotilla, was the seventh operational U-boat combat unit in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". Founded on June 25, 1938, under the command of "Korvettenkapitän" Werner Sobe, it was named in honour of "Kapitänleutnant" Bernd Wegener. Wegener, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on August 19, 1915, after his submarine "U-27" was sunk by British Q-ship HMS "Baralong", which was an atrocity and war crime itself. The flotilla, under the name "Wegener Flotilla", was founded in Kiel in June 1938. In September 1940, the flotilla left its