U-boats

1. German submarines during World War I and World War II. U-boat is a translation of the German U-boot, which is short for Unterseeboot, or “undersea boat.”

Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat. Eventually, U-boat attacks on neutral ships drew the United States into the war.

Example Sentences

It was on 14 May 1945 that the first of the German U-boats made their way up the Foyle to the port of Lisahally where they were formally ordered to surrender.

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Gasoline rationing was instituted: There was no lack of product from the oil fields, it was simply being torpedoed by U-boats, causing severe shortages along the East Coast.

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This major attack in the early stages of the war was an early indication of the Royal Navy’s vulnerability to German U-boats, even in the north of Scotland.

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Guy Ritchie’s latest follows a group of British special forces who took on German U-boats during World War II — and helped inspire James Bond.

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Within weeks of the war’s outbreak, German U-boats had sunk three British cruisers in the English Channel, sending 1,500 sailors to their deaths.

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