
#REDIRECT U-boat
:''"U-boat" is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems; see List of GE locomotives#Universal Series (ca. late 1960s to late 1970s)'' [[image:U-47s.jpg|frame|October 1939. U-47 returns to port after sinking HMS Royal Oak (08). The battlecruiser ''German battlecruiser Scharnhorst'' is seen in the background''.]] A U-boat (German_language : ''U-Boot'') is a Germany submarine of World War I, World War II or later. The term derives from the German Navy's system of naming its submarines with U- followed by a number, where the U stands for ''Unterseeboot'' (literally, "undersea boat"), the German word for submarine. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both world wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from the United States and Canada to Europe. ==World War I== In May of 1915, ''Unterseeboot 20'' sank the liner RMS Lusitania. Though there was a great deal of outrage at the sinking of an "innocent" merchant ship at the time, historians now believe the ''Lusitania'' had 10 tons of weapons aboard, making it a valid target under international law. Of the 1,195 lives lost, 123 were American civilians, including a noted theatrical producer and a member of the prestigious Vanderbilt family. This event turned American public opinion against Germany and was a significant factor in getting the United States involved in the war on the Allied side. With the United States already on the side of the Allies, Germany announced on 31 January 1917 that its U-boats would engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. See First Battle of the Atlantic. ==World War II== During World War II, U-boat warfare was the major component of the Battle of the Atlantic (1940), which lasted the duration of the war. Winston Churchill, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister for most of the war, was quoted as saying, "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril." During the early stages of the war, and soon after the United States' entry into the war, the U-boats were extremely effective in destroying allied shipping, coming up to the Atlantic coast of the United States and even the Gulf of Mexico. Advances in convoy tactics, radar, sonar (called Asdic in England), depth charges, the cracking of the German Enigma code, the introduction of the Leigh Light and the range of escort aircraft turned the tide against the U-boats. In the end, the U-boat fleet suffered extremely heavy casualties, losing 743 U-boats and about 30,000 submariners. During World War II, the Kriegsmarine produced many different types of U-boats as technology evolved. * Type I U-boat * Type II U-boat * Type V U-boat * Type VII U-boat * Type IX U-boat * Type X U-boat * Type XIV U-boat * Type XVII U-boat * Type XVIII U-boat * Type XXI U-boat * Type XXIII U-boat U-505 was a Type IX U-boat, notable for its capture by the United States Navy in 1944. It is presently a museum ship in Chicago, Illinois at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The capture of U-505 was critical due to the capture of her codebooks, which provided the Allies with the ability to read recent Germany codes. On 2 November 1942, U-518, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Wissman, attacked two ore carriers at Bell Island, Newfoundland that were shipping iron ore from the island's mines to feed the allied war effort. The attack began at 3:30 a.m. and S.S. Rosecastle and P.L.M 27 were sunk with the loss of 69 lives. However, one of the most dramatic incidents of the attack occurred after the sinkings when the submarine fired a torpedo at the loading pier. Bell Island became the only location in North America to be subject to direct attack by German forces in World War II. ==See also== * List of U-boats * List of successful U-boats * Karl Dönitz * S. S. Athenia ==References== * Stern, Robert C. (1999). ''Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at war''. Arms and Armor/Sterling Publishing. ISBN 1854092006. * Movie ''Das Boot'' (1981), directed by Wolfgang Petersen ==External links== *http://www.uboat.net/ *http://ubootwaffe.net *[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/7947 ''The Diary of a U-boat Commander''] – Project Gutenberg (WWI) *[http://www.u-boot-archiv.de German U-Boats 1935–1945] (in German language) *[http://www.third-reich-books.com/x-593-u-boat-attack.htm Book excerpt: ''U-Boat Attack''] *[http://www.U-35.com U-Boat U-35 and Prisoners-of-War, WWII] *[http://www.U-434.com U-Boat U-434, POWs in Canada] U-boats
Shouldn't this be under "U-Boat" instead? Or should we move most of the foreign countries, as well as many United States cities (e.g. New Orleans)? --KQ :If anything, it should be "U-boot" as it is short fort the German language "Unterseeboot", not the English language "Underseaboat" or something similar.... User:213.236.117.2 12:11, 27 May 2004 (UTC) That's where I put it originally, and I'm not keen on the move for that reason. Also, I saw pages in German that referred to nuclear "U-boots", while most usage of "U-boat" is to refer to World War I and II German subs. But I didn't want to get into a Wikipedian swapping war (I change it back, he changes it again, etc.). --User:Belltower It's not a swapping war to move something back, it's a swapping war in it gets moved back and forth more than once. It's hard to know when to translate and not to translate (''czar'' no, ''rex'' yes, with plenty of gray area), but I think a reasonable standard to go by is what would be more likely to be linked to, and in this case that would be ''U-boat''. Heck, that's the term used within the article itself. There should be mention of, and links to, the Austro-Hungarian submarine fleet, since they were also known as U-Boots. They operated mainly in the Adriatic, but were a factor in the Mediterranean during World War I; the hero of ''The Sound of Music'' was a notably heroic Austrian U-Boot captain. --User:Technomad == Categories == Why were so many (seeingly appropriate) categories just removed from this page? Just curious...—:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 23:02, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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:''"U-boat" is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems; see List of GE locomotives#Universal Series (ca. late 1960s to late 1970s)'' [[image:U-47s.jpg|frame|October 1939. U-47 returns to port after sinking HMS Royal Oak (08). The battlecruiser ''German battlecruiser Scharnhorst'' is seen in the background''.]] A U-boat (German_language : ''U-Boot'') is a Germany submarine of World War I, World War II or later. The term derives from the German Navy's system of naming its submarines with U- followed by a number, where the U stands for ''Unterseeboot'' (literally, "undersea boat"), the German word for submarine. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both world wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from the United States and Canada to Europe. ==World War I== In May of 1915, ''Unterseeboot 20'' sank the liner RMS Lusitania. Though there was a great deal of outrage at the sinking of an "innocent" merchant ship at the time, historians now believe the ''Lusitania'' had 10 tons of weapons aboard, making it a valid target under international law. Of the 1,195 lives lost, 123 were American civilians, including a noted theatrical producer and a member of the prestigious Vanderbilt family. This event turned American public opinion against Germany and was a significant factor in getting the United States involved in the war on the Allied side. With the United States already on the side of the Allies, Germany announced on 31 January 1917 that its U-boats would engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. See First Battle of the Atlantic. ==World War II== During World War II, U-boat warfare was the major component of the Battle of the Atlantic (1940), which lasted the duration of the war. Winston Churchill, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister for most of the war, was quoted as saying, "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril." During the early stages of the war, and soon after the United States' entry into the war, the U-boats were extremely effective in destroying allied shipping, coming up to the Atlantic coast of the United States and even the Gulf of Mexico. Advances in convoy tactics, radar, sonar (called Asdic in England), depth charges, the cracking of the German Enigma code, the introduction of the Leigh Light and the range of escort aircraft turned the tide against the U-boats. In the end, the U-boat fleet suffered extremely heavy casualties, losing 743 U-boats and about 30,000 submariners. During World War II, the Kriegsmarine produced many different types of U-boats as technology evolved. * Type I U-boat * Type II U-boat * Type V U-boat * Type VII U-boat * Type IX U-boat * Type X U-boat * Type XIV U-boat * Type XVII U-boat * Type XVIII U-boat * Type XXI U-boat * Type XXIII U-boat U-505 was a Type IX U-boat, notable for its capture by the United States Navy in 1944. It is presently a museum ship in Chicago, Illinois at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The capture of U-505 was critical due to the capture of her codebooks, which provided the Allies with the ability to read recent Germany codes. On 2 November 1942, U-518, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Wissman, attacked two ore carriers at Bell Island, Newfoundland that were shipping iron ore from the island's mines to feed the allied war effort. The attack began at 3:30 a.m. and S.S. Rosecastle and P.L.M 27 were sunk with the loss of 69 lives. However, one of the most dramatic incidents of the attack occurred after the sinkings when the submarine fired a torpedo at the loading pier. Bell Island became the only location in North America to be subject to direct attack by German forces in World War II. ==See also== * List of U-boats * List of successful U-boats * Karl Dönitz * S. S. Athenia ==References== * Stern, Robert C. (1999). ''Battle Beneath the Waves: U-boats at war''. Arms and Armor/Sterling Publishing. ISBN 1854092006. * Movie ''Das Boot'' (1981), directed by Wolfgang Petersen ==External links== *http://www.uboat.net/ *http://ubootwaffe.net *[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/7947 ''The Diary of a U-boat Commander''] – Project Gutenberg (WWI) *[http://www.u-boot-archiv.de German U-Boats 1935–1945] (in German language) *[http://www.third-reich-books.com/x-593-u-boat-attack.htm Book excerpt: ''U-Boat Attack''] *[http://www.U-35.com U-Boat U-35 and Prisoners-of-War, WWII] *[http://www.U-434.com U-Boat U-434, POWs in Canada] U-boats
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Shouldn't this be under "U-Boat" instead? Or should we move most of the foreign countries, as well as many United States cities (e.g. New Orleans)? --KQ :If anything, it should be "U-boot" as it is short fort the German language "Unterseeboot", not the English language "Underseaboat" or something similar.... User:213.236.117.2 12:11, 27 May 2004 (UTC) That's where I put it originally, and I'm not keen on the move for that reason. Also, I saw pages in German that referred to nuclear "U-boots", while most usage of "U-boat" is to refer to World War I and II German subs. But I didn't want to get into a Wikipedian swapping war (I change it back, he changes it again, etc.). --User:Belltower It's not a swapping war to move something back, it's a swapping war in it gets moved back and forth more than once. It's hard to know when to translate and not to translate (''czar'' no, ''rex'' yes, with plenty of gray area), but I think a reasonable standard to go by is what would be more likely to be linked to, and in this case that would be ''U-boat''. Heck, that's the term used within the article itself. There should be mention of, and links to, the Austro-Hungarian submarine fleet, since they were also known as U-Boots. They operated mainly in the Adriatic, but were a factor in the Mediterranean during World War I; the hero of ''The Sound of Music'' was a notably heroic Austrian U-Boot captain. --User:Technomad == Categories == Why were so many (seeingly appropriate) categories just removed from this page? Just curious...—:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 23:02, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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