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
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH was a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Kiel. It is now part of TKMS. The Howaldtswerke shipyard was founded in Kiel in 1838 and merged with Hamburg-based
Share of the Howaldtswerke, issued 19 June 1889
View of HDW-shipyard at Kiel, 2003
An early submarine, the Brandtaucher, in the museum in Dresden
Superfast VIII at Helsinki