Maritime History
Hans Rose (April 18, 1885 – December 6, 1969) was one of the most successful and highly decorated German U-boat commanders in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War 1. In addition to the American destroyer USS Jacob Jones, he sank either 80 merchant ships totalling 230,051 gross register tons (GRT) or 81 merchant ships totalling 220,892 GRT and damaged another nine.
Hirtshals.
Günther Prien.
Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.