Subs in the Mediterranean

WI prior to WWI the Kaiser convinced AH to either create a submarine flotilla, or station German submarines in the Adriatic Sea? Would they ever be used? Would they do any good? Would any change occur during the war?
 
There were German unterseebooten operating in the Mediterranean during the Great War, and there were also Austro-Hungarian units. And they had didn't have much discernible effect on the outcome of the war, as history has shown, except to combat the French and Italian navies, which were supposed to operate in that theater anyway.
 
There were German unterseebooten operating in the Mediterranean during the Great War, and there were also Austro-Hungarian units. And they had didn't have much discernible effect on the outcome of the war, as history has shown, except to combat the French and Italian navies, which were supposed to operate in that theater anyway.

As I understand it there was never more then ten. Was I wrong in this regard? I found the number from the Paris Peace Conference book. I was thinking in terms of a larger submarine force.
 
The Med is also quite a tricky place to operate subs. Lots of shallows, lots of transluscent water, (although the diverse sea temperature/salinity makes it very difficult to detect submarines by sonar, but that's only really applicable post-1945)
 
As I understand it there was never more then ten. Was I wrong in this regard? I found the number from the Paris Peace Conference book. I was thinking in terms of a larger submarine force.

Well you did ask about an AH where the Germans place any number of submarines. You asked, and I answered.

However I don't think an increase in submarines would do much to change the outcome of the war. Britain had a fair-sized fleet operating in the Med. Sea, so its links with empire would be kept intact with minimal damage. Add to that the French Navy, and then the Italian Navy after 1915, and you have a substantially-powerful Entente and Associated Powers force to combat a wide range in increase of German-Austro-Hungarian submarine units.

Also, keep in mind that you're talking about a pre-war POD. Before 1915 submarines weren't recognized as prime naval material, and thus weren't produced in big numbers. You're having Wilhelm make decisions that didn't exist with the conditions existing in the rundown to war, unless you can decisively prove that submarines make an excellent naval force in a previous conflict, which is an altogether wholly-different POD.
 
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