1918: Salvaging a U-boat
The photographs shown here are of U-Boat 110, a German Submarine that was sunk and risen in 1918. They are taken from a 1918 album of photographs found in the Swan Hunter shipbuilders collection at Tyne & Wear Archives. The album documents the U.B. 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks of Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend.
The Armistice on 11th November 1918 caused work on her to be stopped. She was towed on the 19th December 1918 from Wallsend to the Northumberland Dock at Howdon and was subsequently sold as scrap.
