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German submarine U-166

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2021
Entity authorityQ2472216 ↗
Source-derived summary

U-166 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

SM U-166, a Type U 93 submarine launched in 1918; served in World War I until surrendered on 21 March 1919; became French submarine Jean Roulier until 24 July 1935; broken up.

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The public source identifies “German submarine U-166” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around German, submarine and U-166.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1919, 1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with German, submarine and U-166 providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “German submarine U-166” 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.