U-boat
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.25|, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial near [[Kiel, Germany]]
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26 sectionsContents
- Early U-boats (1850–1914)
- Pre–World War I classes
- World War I (1914–1918)
- Operations
- World War I Classes
- Interwar years (1919–1939)
- Construction
- Developments
- U-Boat design and layout
- World War II (1939–1945)
- Operations
- U-boat developments
- Classes
- Post–World War II and Cold War (after 1945)
- Type 201, 202 and 205
- Type 206 and 207
- Type 209 and variants
- Type 212 and variants
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- Citations
- References
- Online
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.25|, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial near [[Kiel, Germany]]
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 , a shortening of (). Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats.