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U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.
There were some 380 U-boats commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine in the years before and during World War I. Although the first four German U-boats—U-1, U-2, U-3, and U-4—were commissioned before 1910, all four served in a training capacity during the war. German U-boats used during World War I were divided into three series.
SM UB-85 [Note 1] was a Type UB III U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. Ordered on 23 September 1916, the U-boat was built at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen and commissioned on 24 November 1917, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Günther Krech. [2]
U-boat flotillas of World War II Name Type Base 1st U-boat Flotilla: Combat Brest: 2nd U-boat Flotilla: Combat Lorient: 3rd U-boat Flotilla: Combat La Rochelle: 4th U-boat Flotilla: Training Stettin: 5th U-boat Flotilla: Training Kiel: 6th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 7th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 8th U-boat Flotilla ...
The Type UB I submarine (sometimes known as the UB-1 class [1]) was a class of small coastal submarines built in Germany at the beginning of the First World War.Twenty boats were constructed, most of which went into service with the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) Boats of this design were also operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K ...
Saltzwedel (1889–1917) commanded six U-boats during the war. He was killed in December 1917 when UB-81 was sunk by a mine off the Isle of Wight. Otto von Schrader: N/A 57 [19] 54,663 [19] Schrader (1888–1945) commanded various U-boats. He was an admiral in World War II. Otto Schultze PM: N/A 53 [20] 132,564 [20] Schultze (1884–1966 ...
List of U-boat types contains lists of the German U-boat types (submarine classes) used in World War I and World War II. The anglicized word U-boat is usually only used as reference for German submarines in the two World Wars and therefore postwar submarine in the Bundesmarine and later German Navy are not included.