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Two members of the coast guard, chief boatman William Heard and chief officer W. Moore, showed important visitors around the interior of the submarine. The visits were curtailed in late April, when both coast guard men became severely ill. Rotting food on board was thought to be the cause, but the men's condition persisted and got worse. Moore died in December 1919, followed by Heard in February 1920. An inquest decided that a noxious gas, possibly chlorine released from the submarine's damaged batteries, had caused abscesses on the men's lungs and brain.<ref name="wreck" />
Although visits inside the submarine had stopped, tourists still came to be photographed alongside or on the U-boat's deck.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/u-boats.htm|title=U-boats|access-date=24 January 2010}}</ref> The wreck was sold by the [[British Admiralty]] to James Dredging Co. on 21 May 1919 for £2,200 (£ {{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|2200|1919|r=-3}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}}) and broken up on the beach until 1921.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodson |first1=Aidan |last2=Cant |first2=Serena |title=Spoils of War: the fate of enemy fleets after the two World Wars |date=2020 |publisher=Seaforth |location=Barnsley |isbn=978
==Summary of raiding history==
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