MICHAEL LOWREY Lowrey has handled for 20 years + most of the World War I section of the uboat.net website, including its database of ships sunk, damaged, or captured by German and Austrian submarines and its U-boat loss attributions. He also works extensively with divers and others to locate and identify submarine wrecks in the North Sea and English Channel, and has played a leading role in nine submarine wreck identifications to date. Lowrey was also a historical advisor to the dive team that located the wreck of USS Jacob Jones in 2022. Lowrey grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina He got his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, majoring in economics and political science. Lowrey holds a master’s degree in economics from N. C. State University. Lowrey’s background is in public policy, working for nearly two decades for the John Locke Foundation writing several major policy reports for the Raleigh, NC-based think tank. Opinion pieces he’s written have appeared in over 100 newspapers. He currently teaches economics classes at Wingate University in Wingate, N.C.
HOMEPORT: Charlotte, North Carolina
AREA OF EXPERTISE: World War I naval operations, U-boat operations, submarine wreck identification, merchant ships of the late 19th and early 20th century, German naval officers
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS: His publications including co-authoring of HMS Hampshire: a Century of Myths and Mysteries Unravelled, which was a finalist for the 2017 Mountbatten Maritime Award.