What was living conditions like on a submarine World War 1?

Answer 1

I dated a young man that was on the crew of a submarine that was in port in Vancouver, B.C. He took me for a tour of the submarine and all I can tell you is I felt Claustrophobic and sweated bullets as he explained everything to me and when I finally got out I had to take a big gulp of fresh air. The quarters were very small and you would have had a hard time swinging a cat around in it. Today's subs are more technology based and roomier, but still small quarters. Life on board a sub is not for everyone. The crews would call them "sardine cans" or "tin cans." That's about what it must have felt like for them. During WWII it was a terrible feeling for some of those men if a war-ship dumped depth charges at them and even with radar from the sub many were hit and sunk and it's a slow death of suffocation. Sometimes the subs had to dive for hundreds of feet quickly and sometimes hit bottom and "stay low" and if they began to come to the surface too fast a great blast of air like a high screaming whistle would almost burst the eardrums of the men inside. Many of these poor souls ended their lives in a watery grave.

Answer 2

Generally speaking, miserable. Living quarters were cramped with virtually no privacy. Two sailors shared the same bunk so when one came off watch and his bunkmate went on watch, the first man had to get into the bunk used by the second one. The food usually got moldy and rancid because of lack of proper refigeration facilities. The air had a constant smell of diesel fumes and body odor and vomit. If the sub was running on the surface in a storm it would go up and down wildly. And of course it was completely nervewracking to be undersea and helpless while being depthcharged by enemy surface vessels. See the movie "Das Boot".

Answer 3

the u boats where used for sinking other ships and is was etramely scarry to be on one

Answer 4

Ask the submarine. The King