U-boat
A U-boat is a military submarine used by Germany. German submarines were most active in the First Battle of the Atlantic in World War I and the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. Although they could be very effective as weapons against enemy warships, they were most effective in economic warfare (commerce raiding) and enforcing naval blockades against enemy shipping.
The name is an abbreviation of the German Unterseeboot ("undersea boat").[1] In English, U-boat refers exclusively to the German vessels used during the World Wars. In German, however, the term U-Boat refers to any submarine, including military and civilian ones and modern and foreign ones. Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats.
U-boat Media
Template:GS, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial
Sinking of the Linda Blanche out of Liverpool by Template:SMU (Willy Stöwer)
U-boat pens in Saint-Nazaire, France
Oil painting of a Kriegsmarine U-boat, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Survivors from Template:GS after being sunk by Template:USCGC, 17 April 1943
U-15, a Type 206 submarine, of the German Navy at the Kiel Week 2007
Type 212 submarine with air-independent propulsion of the German Navy in dock at HDW/Kiel
