From Today I Found Out.

On July 9, 1916, an unusual vessel suddenly appeared in Baltimore Harbour: a German U-boat, proudly flying the red, white, and black Imperial flag. Yet no warships or gunfire greeted the foreign intruder, for she was on a mission not of war, but of commerce. The 60 metre long, 2,300-ton unarmed vessel, specifically designed to evade British naval blockades, was packed to the gunwales with valuable medicines and dyestuffs, which the Germans hoped to trade with the neutral United States for much-needed raw materials. Her two 1916 voyages remain the only time in history that international trade has been conducted via submarine. This is the unique story of the German U-boat Deutschland.

Author: Gilles Messier
Host: Daven Hiskey
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen