A typical U-boat U-boat is an version of the German word U-Boot ( ), a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally 'undersea boat'. While the German term refers to any, the English one (in common with several other languages) refers specifically to operated by Germany, particularly in the and World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role () and enforcing a naval against enemy shipping. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada and other parts of the, and the United States to the United Kingdom and (during the Second World War) to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean.

Submarines were also known as U-boats. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early U-boats (1850–1914) [ ] The first submarine built in Germany, the three-man, sank to the bottom of harbor on 1 February 1851 during a test dive.

The and had designed this vessel in 1850, and constructed it in. Operations in 1887 rediscovered Brandtaucher; it was later raised and put on historical display in Germany. There followed in 1890 the boats WW1 and WW2, built to a design. In 1903 the dockyard in Kiel completed the first fully functional German-built submarine,, which sold to Russia during the in April 1904.

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The was a completely redesigned and only one was built. The commissioned it on 14 December 1906.

It had a double hull, a engine, and a single torpedo tube. The 50%-larger (commissioned in 1908) had two torpedo tubes. The class of 1912–13 saw the first installed in a German navy boat. At the start of World War I in 1914, Germany had 48 submarines of 13 classes in service or under construction. During that war the Imperial German Navy used SM U-1 for training.

Retired in 1919, it remains on display at the in Munich. World War I (1914–1918) [ ]. Main article: On 5 September 1914, was sunk by, the first ship to have been sunk by a submarine using a self-propelled torpedo. On, sank the obsolete British warships, and (the ') in a single hour. In the in early 1915 in the eastern Mediterranean, German U-boats, notably the U-21, prevented close support of allied troops by 18 by sinking two of them. For the first few months of the war, U-boat actions observed the of the time, which governed the treatment of enemy civilian ships and their occupants. On 20 October 1914, sank the first merchant ship, the, off Norway.

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Surface commerce raiders were proving to be ineffective, and on 4 February 1915, the assented to the declaration of a war zone in the waters around the British Isles. This was cited as a retaliation for British minefields and shipping. Under the instructions given to U-boat captains, they could sink merchant ships, even potentially neutral ones, without warning.

In February 1915, a submarine U-6 ( Lepsius) was rammed and both periscopes were destroyed off by the collier SS Thordis commanded by Captain John Bell RNR after firing a torpedo. On 7 May 1915, sank the liner. The sinking claimed 1,198 lives, 128 of them American civilians, and the attack of this unarmed civilian ship deeply shocked the. According to the ship's manifest, Lusitania was carrying military cargo, though none of this information was relayed to the citizens of Britain and the United States who thought that the ship contained no ammunition or military weaponry whatsoever and it was an act of brutal murder. Munitions that it carried were thousands of crates full of ammunition for rifles, 3-inch artillery shells, and also various other standard ammunition used by infantry. The sinking of the Lusitania was widely used as propaganda against the German Empire and caused greater support for the war effort. A widespread reaction in the U.S was not seen until the sinking of the ferry.