Sea Your History - Improvements in submarine design

Conflict and Change

Introduction
In Focus: 1900
In Focus: World War One
In Focus: Interwar
In Focus: World War Two
In Focus: Post War Conflict
In Focus: Cold War Climate
In Focus: Falklands and Beyond
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Improvements in submarine design

New submarine technology

World War One had resulted in various design developments in submarines, necessitated by wartime conditions. The submarine therefore represented a formidable weapon of war by 1918, even though few of the more innovative submarine designs which had been thought up during the war were retained.