The range of targets and weapons shows why the Adriatic campaign cannot be reduced to battleship movements. U-11 captured the Italian hospital ship King Albert, while other submarines attacked a French destroyer, an Italian troop transport, and a Q-ship. Austro-Hungarian seaplanes L132 and L135 sank the French submarine Foucault, demonstrating that air power had entered the anti-submarine fight. A French submarine's sinking of the hospital ship Elektra on the same day reinforces the campaign's violent disregard for protected medical shipping.
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The dispersed small-war campaign of 1916
In 1916, submarine attacks, hospital-ship violations, Q-ships, troop transports, and seaplane anti-submarine strikes spread the campaign across many small actions.