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SM U-52 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. ''U-52'' was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. Notable for sinking 2 warships, her first warship (and second kill) was the Royal Navy's light cruiser in the North Sea on August 19, 1916 at . Thirty-eight men were lost. ''U-52''s second warship kill was the French battleship , sunk west of Portugal at . on 26 November 1916. All 648 men were lost as the torpedo ignited a magazine and the ship sank within seconds. In 1928, one of the ordinary seamen of U-52, Julius Schopka, published his memoirs of the years on the boat. Schopka was by then living in Iceland and his book was published in Icelandic, co-written by journalist Árni Óla. It was called Kafbátahernaðurinn (The Submarine Warfare).〔http://landogsaga.is/section.php?id=3709&id_art=3821〕〔http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=239478〕 ==Summary of raiding career== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SM U-52」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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