Das boot my most favourite film
claretmatt:
U-Boat skippers would sometimes come alongside cargo ships and ask the crew to abandon ship before sinking them, recognising they weren’t fighting sailors I guess
In ww1 the Hague convention stated merchant ships had to be stopped and crews given time to take to the boats(a place of safety the convention quotes,but only if near land.many ships tried to outrun the ww1 u boats but most where forced to stop engines after being fired on.most where sunk with gunfire until unrestricted war at gave way to sinkings without warning from below the surface.