How To Use U-boat In A Sentence

  • With its stabilizer removed, it sailed at high speed on a zigzag course, thus reducing the chance of accurate U-boat targeting.
  • There is also a fine passage where Jericho quickly calculates on information-theoretic grounds whether the coming convoy clash will supply enough material to break back into the U-boat Enigma.
  • Auto chases, motorcycle escapes, and a fantastic battle between U-boat and autogyro over Coney Island! How to contribute
  • Unfortunately for the U-boat force, as with all other naval officers at that time, the German Naval High Command believed vehemently in the unsinkable battleship.
  • The weapon was the U-boat, and its ability to disorganize shipping was quickly felt. The Prize
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  • For all the talk of U-boat wolf packs, 99% of the ships convoyed from the U.S. to Britain made it safely. Those Desperate Hours
  • He ordered future commanders of U-boats to ‘be severe’ and forbade them to rescue survivors other than the captains and chief engineers of the enemy ships.
  • The Squid was a formidable weapon in the war against the U-boat, capable of being preset to explode at a pre-determined depth.
  • Often, in the mid-Atlantic, after forcing U-boats to crash-dive, carrier planes dropped homing torpedoes on the submarines.
  • Looks like a mirror only, of course, it's not a mirror, it's a U-boat's periscope reflecting the sun. SAN ANDREAS
  • Sometimes he was right, as in his denunciation of the pointless attacks on the concrete-reinforced U-boat pens on the French coast.
  • AS GERMANS, ITALIANS AND Norwegians quibbled over ownership of the Nazi submarine raised from the Kattegat depths off Denmark last week, a team of Danish experts boarded the U-boat to secure the 16 torpedoes and other munitions still on board. Sunken Treasure
  • His first 11 months aboard the Alabama was in the European theatre, mostly in the North Sea, convoying British and Russian troop and supply ships against a German U-boat armada.
  • Attending the weekend were some of the survivors, crew members who had left ship before the sinking, relatives of the lost crew members and the captain of the U-Boat responsible.
  • You know enough about that to know the difference between a whale and a U-boat?
  • At sea, the punishing U-boat campaign continued, and the war in the Atlantic was cruel and unrelenting.
  • This was a time when oil for Spain was being transshipped to German U-boats right at the Spanish docks, while Japan had contracted for all the airplane gasoline on the Pacific coast for immediate delivery. 'Valley of Death'
  • At this late stage of the war, the German mine-laying subs were planting their cargoes close inshore, to catch Allied shipping hugging the coast in an effort to dodge U-boats operating in deeper waters.
  • There was no sign of the U-boat but he had been certain that the U-boat would not show itself. SAN ANDREAS
  • Both sides in the Great War used such disguised ships, though for different purposes: the Germans had their disguised raiders, and the British had Q-ships, vulnerable-looking merchants with hidden guns that were supposed to attract U-boats which, under Prize Rules, were supposed to challenge before attacking where there was no visible danger, not a restriction that was adhered to for long and then uncloak and sink them in a hail of shot. The Last Raider, by Douglas Reeman. Book review
  • The crew of a U.S. submarine is sent on a top-secret mission to board a disabled German U-boat and steal a secret encoding device.
  • To combat air attacks, and to harry the long-range German Focke-Wulf Kondor aircraft which acted as reconnaissance for the U-boats, makeshift efforts were made to give air cover, before escort carriers were introduced.
  • German U-boats would wait silently in the firth for targets.
  • Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth.
  • A U-boat's hiding below the freezing, horribly injured crew of a tanker they've just torpedoed and Coward's destroyer has sped in to rescue them... then discovers the sub on ASDIC. Crooks and Liars
  • An aircraft would on many occasions surprise a surfaced U-boat and attack it with both cannon fire and depth charges.
  • What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
  • The ashes of a woman have been placed inside the wreck of a Royal Navy ship alongside those of her long-dead hero husband who died when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
  • Looks like a mirror only, of course, it's not a mirror, it's a U-boat 's periscope reflecting the sun. SAN ANDREAS
  • As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third.
  • Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of sloops defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
  • The entire range of U-boat countermeasures available to the allies was deployed at one time or another in the channel.
  • Byron was killed in the second world war aged only 35, lost when his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Wrath.
  • With his dungarees, red neckerchief, beard and constantly oily hands, I couldn't help seeing him as a displaced U-boat skipper - or perhaps my imagination was working overtime.
  • Sinclair said: `On the basis of what you say, the U-boat captain was indeed the wrong man for the job. SAN ANDREAS
  • She says that most divers in the South know the wreck of HMS Hood, the battleship which was sunk in 1914 across the south ship channel of Portland Harbour to stop U-boats firing torpedoes at ships inside.
  • The German U-boats were shooting on the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean.
  • Its registration number, painted in white on the turret, is U-8047 – chosen for its resemblance to U-BOAT. In search of the Lancashire U-boat commander
  • The German U-boats were shooting on the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean.
  • In 1939 a fourteen year old British cabin boy was killed when a torpedo from a German U-boat shot it. Interview with Mark A. Cooper
  • He's been told, probably via Trondheim, by the U-boat that's trailing us. SAN ANDREAS
  • At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
  • Allied pilots later reported that on more than one occasion, that as the aircraft approached the U-boat, the blimp on the radar would suddenly disappear, foiling the attack.
  • After 37 days at sea his ship limped into Sydney after being torpedoed by a German U-boat.
  • Destroyers of the escort screen raced out and drove the U-boats off.
  • U-boats were attacked by aircraft, airships, Q-ships, mines, drifters, Naval vessels (including submarines) and merchant ships.
  • In 1940, the U-boats started to take a real toll against merchant shipping.

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