Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, U-995, is on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
U-995 Type VIIC/41 at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel
A cross-section of a Type VIIC U-boat.
Miniature model of a Type VIIC.
Type VIIC/41 U-995. Laboe Naval Memorial
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, though the German term refers to any submarine. Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats.
U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial
The first German submarine, the SM U-1.
The German submarine U-14, showing the kerosene vapour trail.
Sea mines are loaded in a UC coastal submarine in the harbour of Zeebrugge