the German "U-Boat".
A German submarine used in WW I was called a U-boat.
U-Boat was the name used by the Allies for German submarines particularly during WW2. U-Boat stood for Unterseeboot, the German for submarine. Unterseeboot was actually a general term for submarines.Answer: An undersea boat or submarine. Also can be known as a German Submarine.A U-Boat or "unter see boot" is the German name for a submarine.
U-boats
A U-boat was a submarine used by Germany in World War 1 and World War 2.
the U boat 'is' the German word for submarine. western nations just used submarine. U boat is short for Unterwasserboot, which translates as undersea boat or under water boat or submarine.
A U-Boat was a German submarine that was used to fire torpedoes at ships and spy on the Brits.
a U-Boat is a German Submarine used to fight the U.S in WW1
Plural of Unterseeboot, German for Submarine. U Boat. They were widely used in World War I in an attempt to blockade Britain.
One notable German submarine is the U-96, a type VIIC U-boat used by the Kriegsmarine during World War II. It gained fame from the 1981 film "Das Boot," which depicts the harrowing experiences of its crew. U-96 completed several successful patrols before being sunk in 1945.
Diesel-Electric submarines had been in use for years before WWI; there were many commissioned boats on both sides of the war before it even started, so there is no one particular submarine used in WWI. However, the one boat that arguably had the most impact at the beginning of WWI was the German submarine U-20, which was responsible for sinking the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania. This single submarine attack had repercussions throughout the war, causing policy shifts in Germany considering submarine warfare, and which affected submarine warfare in general forever.
X-class was a type of midget submarine used by the Royal Navy. X-Great was the name of German bomber radio navigation equipment.
The term U-boat comes from the German word for submarine, and it was usually used only in reference to German submarines, and not those of Japan or the US.