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U-boat

 German Unterseeboot (“undersea boat”)

German submarine. The first German submarine, the U-1, was built in 1905. During World War I Germany became the first country to employ submarines in war, and during World War II its U-boats dominated the Battle of the Atlantic until the Allies developed new antisubmarine tactics. The principal German U-boat was the type VII; the VIIC variant was 220.25 ft (66 m) long, displaced 769 tons on the surface, carried one 90-mm deck gun and five torpedo tubes, and was manned by a crew of 44. Modern German U-boats are built for the German navy and navies of allied countries; their sophisticated structures, electonics, and propulsion systems allow them to be used for intelligence gathering and special operations in addition to defending sea lanes and threatening enemy forces.

U-boat
a German submarine, esp in World Wars I and II


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Eventually, sheer numbers prevailed, and American merchant ships could sail anywhere in relative safety as the number of German U-boats declined in inverse proportion to the increase in shipping.
TORPEDO JUNCTION the cruelest sea by David H Grover / Sea Classics
Britain was in danger of being starved into submission by packs of German U-boats prowling the Atlantic and blocking the ships carrying tons of food and raw materials bound for the UK.
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Readers also see how the German U-boats extended their endurance by refuelling and rearming at sea from another U-boat--in this case the U463, a specially designed tanker known as a Milchkuh (milk cow).
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