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Posted By: Walt Mathers on: 07/09/2010 16:25:36 EDT
Subject: Today Marks Anniversary For BALTIMORE

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July 9, 1916, the German merchant submarine U-DEUTSCHLAND arrived at the McLean Contracting Company's South Locust Point pier after making the world's first trans-Atlantic solo crossing by a submarine.

McLean's pier, situated at the foot of Andre Street, had been leased to a subsidiary company of the North German Lloyd Lines.

The U-Boot was not equipped with torpedo tubes and supported no deck gun, according to the US Navy Department inspectors and therefor qualified her as a merchantman.

During her stay in the harbor, the Mayor of Baltimore, the German Ambassador to the United States,, and the submarine's captain, Paul Konig got underway from the Recreation Pier - foot of Broadway aboard the 1906 Steam Tug BALTIMORE for a courtesy inspection of the Unterseeboot DEUTSCHLAND.

Te DEUTSCHLAND was scrapped in 1923. The Tug BALTIMORE still floats in Baltimore Harbor - representing not less than one-third of the entire history of the Port of Baltimore 1706-1906-2006 and beyond.

Aye! She floats but with a severely weakened hull and no immediate plans to pull her out of the water by her current guardians, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, there is no telling how long the 1906 S.T. BALTIMORE will keep her waterline above the ever lapping waters of the Inner Harbor South.


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