U-boat

A U-boat or Unterseeboot was a submarine used by Germany in both World Wars.

During the Great War, a U-boat was was responsible for the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania. After the war, U-boat construction was blocked by the Treaty of Versailles preventing Germany rebuilding a military.

However, designs for submarines began to be developed in secret in 1922 by the Submarine Development Bureau and by 1935, Adolf Hitler had denounced and ignored the treaty, and U-boats were in use up to and during World War II.

In 1933, René Emile Belloq's home in Marseilles was destroyed by a U-boat's torpedos.

Three years later, the U-boat Wurrfler carried the Ark of the Covenant stolen from the Bantu Wind to the secret Nazi base Geheimhaven.

Notable U-boats

 * Wurrfler / U26
 * U25
 * U53
 * U-375

Appearances

 * Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark