On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, officials said. The ship exploded and sank in fewer than eight minutes ...

Under Wolfgang Lüth, the second-highest U-boat ace of the war, this U-boat carried out a patrol that lasted 205 days, a record exceeded only by the U-boats that transferred to the Far East.