A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes.
Term for German submarines employed during WWI and WWII.
1 In the pursuit of the U-boat the airplane was also extremely effective.
2 I wished to cruise with the American destroyers in their U - boat operations.
3 They kept both the U-boat 's deckguns smoking; but the shots went wild.
4 A fourth destroyer of ours got the U - boat which sank the liner.
5 Yet occasionally the deadly U - boat claimed one of these as a victim.
6 At any rate, he went back to his U - boat and the undersea.
7 She was lucky not to meet with a U - boat during her wanderings.
8 I must see whether I can't invent a set of U - boat exercises!
9 Six years later the Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat .
10 The result was one U-boat apparently sunk but one merchantman torpedoed.
11 The destroyer was then steaming away with the U - boat in tow.
12 The result of these methods was the gradual destruction of the U-boat menace.
13 There is no doubt now about the fate of the U-boat .
14 They were all used up since the battle with the U-boat .
15 The two convoys were now busy with another U - boat that had attacked them.
16 The U-boat which sank us had been out for six weeks.
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