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 Translation for 'U boat' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a U-boat | U-boats
hist.mil.
submarino {m} alemán
U-boat [submarine used by the Germans in WWII]
Partial Matches
náut.
barca {f}
boat
5
náut.
bote {m}
boat
3
náut.
embarcación {f} [barco]
boat
gastr.
salsera {f}
gravy boat
dep.náut.
barco {m} a / de vela
sailing boat
comerc.ictiol.náut.
barco {m} de pesca
fishing boat
náut.
botecito {m}
small boat
ictiol.náut.
barco {m} pesquero
fishing boat
náut.
velero {m} [barco de vela]
sailing boat [Br.]
dep.náut.
barca {f} de remos
rowing boat [Br.]
quím.
uranio {m} <U>
uranium <U>
estadounidense {adj}U.S.
sifón {m} de váterU-bend [siphoning system of a toilet]
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Usage Examples English
  • A four-rotor Enigma was introduced by the Navy for U-boat traffic on 1 February 1942, called "M4" (the network was known as "Triton", or "Shark" to the Allies).
  • In April 1918 the Dover Patrol carried out the Zeebrugge Raid against the U-boat bases.
  • The port gave vital Allied service in the longest-running campaign of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic, and saw the surrender of the German U-boat fleet at Lisahally on 8 May 1945.
  • The threat evolved by World War I with the development of the submarine, or U-boat.
  • "DRAUPNIR" was revealed as the key to a website that Neal Caffrey and Mozzie used to view their stolen Nazi U-boat treasure in "Taking Account", the seventh episode of the third season of "White Collar".

  • Karl Dönitz was reputed to have claimed that "an aircraft can no more kill a U-boat than a crow can kill a mole".
  • 1942, the first of 11 U-boat kills credited to RAF Fortress bombers during the war.
  • The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.
  • The pre-arranged signal to the waiting submarines was transmitted throughout the day from the E-Dienst radio station at Bruges, and the U-boat tender "Arcona" anchored at Emden.
  • Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from that base, which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

  • Whilst the escape of the German fleet from the superior British firepower at Jutland was effected by the German cruisers and destroyers successfully turning away the British battleships, the German attempt to rely on U-boat attacks on the British fleet failed.
  • The production included the construction of several models of different sizes, as well as a complete, detailed reconstruction of the interior of the [...] , a Type VIIC-class U-boat.
  • " freighter and the German U-boat " [...] "; around 50 Jägers had returned by the end of 1917.
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