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German submarine U-16

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ3492022 ↗
Source-derived summary

U-16 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

SM U-16 (Germany), was a unique submarine; launched in 1911 and served in the First World War until sunk in an accident on 8 February 1919, en route to surrender

During the First World War, Germany also had these submarines with similar names:

SM UB-16, a Type UB I submarine launched in 1915 and sunk 10 May 1918

SM UC-16, a Type UC II submarine launched in 1916 and lost in October 1917

German submarine U-16 (1936), a Type IIB submarine that served in the Second World War and was sunk on 25 October 1939

German submarine U-16 (S195), a Type 206 submarine of the Bundesmarine that was launched in 1973 and was sold to Columbia after decommissioning in 2011 for spare parts.

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“German submarine U-16” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what German, submarine and U-16 can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1919, 1915, 1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around German, submarine and U-16.
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“German submarine U-16” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, German, submarine and U-16 provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3492022. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1919, 1915 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “German submarine U-16” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.