Flanders U-boat flotilla

U-Boat Flotilla, Flanders
ActiveRaised March 1915, dissolved October 1918
CountryGermany
BranchImperial German Navy
TypeU-boat flotilla
BaseBruges, Belgium
NicknameFlanders flotilla

The Flanders U-boat flotilla (German: Unterseeboots Flotille Flandern) was an Imperial German Navy formation set up to prosecute the U-boat campaign against Allied shipping in the Channel and the North Sea (British Home Waters) during the First World War. The Flanders U-boat Flotilla was one of the naval components of the Naval Corps. Originally operating as a flotilla, it was split in two during the latter part of the war.

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