U-boat
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U-boats are naval submarines operated by Germany, especially during World War I and World War II. The term is an anglicized form of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot. Austro-Hungari
U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel, Germany
The first German submarine, the SM U-1. Her remains are on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
The German submarine U-11, showing the kerosene vapour trail.
Sea mines are loaded in a UC coastal submarine in the harbour of Zeebrugge
Type VII submarine
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The Type VII was a class of medium U-boats built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine from 1935 to 1945. Derived from the World War I design of the Type UB III and the Vetehinen class built for Finland, th
U-boat
…500-ton medium submarines in Finland between 1927 and 1931, known as the Vetehinen-class. These ships were the prototypes for the subsequent German Type VII U-boat. In 1933 a small 250-ton submarine, the Vesikko was built. This submarine was nearly identical to the subsequent German Type II U-boat. A fifth…
U-995 Type VIIC/41 at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel
A cross-section of a Type VIIC U-boat
The capture of U-570, which was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Graph