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U-boat

German submarine. The term was used in both world wars when U-boat attacks posed a great threat to Allied shipping.
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She was heading for Liverpool from New York when she was torpedoed and sunk by a German Uboat off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915, with the loss of some 1,200 lives.
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