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The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
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.
List of German U-boats in World War II (600-4712) Categories: U-boats. Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II. World War II naval-related lists. World War II submarines of Germany.
10 Top-scoring U-boats of World War II. Scuttled, 17 March 1941 after depth charging by HMS Walker. Decommissioned March 1944. Sunk by bombs in Kiel, 15 April 1945. Lost with all hands, 2 April 1943 after depth charging by HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan. Decommissioned 17 June 1944. Scuttled in port, 19 August 1944.
Type VIIC/41 U-boat. 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.
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 German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1945, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
This list contains the German U-boats flotillas during the Second World War. After 1941, the U-boat flotillas were in turn organized into U-boat regions . U-boat flotillas of World War II