About 80% of all u-boats were destroyed, 28.000 of the 40.000 u-boat personal were killed during the war, 8.000 were captured. since detailed information for all u-boat classes and single ships would be too voluminous for this web page, only a short overview about the single u-boat types is given here.. U-boat: u-boat, (“undersea boat”), a german submarine. the destruction of enemy shipping by german u-boats was a spectacular feature of both world wars i and ii. germany was the first country to employ submarines in war as substitutes for surface commerce raiders. at the outset of world war i, german. U-boat is an anglicised version of the german word u-boot , a shortening of unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat". while the german term germany started building u-boats and training crews, labeling these activities as "research" or concealing them using other covers..
The boat is now a museum ship in laboe, germany. a kit that corresponds to this boat is revell 05045 and it is a type vii-c/41 boat. our kit is revell 05015 type vii-c, which is an earlier version of the boat. the kit allows choosing between several specific boats. we decided to build u-552 which is one of them.. The u-boat arm stood somewhat aside from this; they faced other problems. and, with the exception that the number of outfitting yards was increased to nine, plan z had no further effect on the u-boat building or design. instead, the u-boat arm had to care about yard capacities and the specialists for it. building u-boats was manpower intensive.. I got my u-boat model from wonderland models in edinburgh, i was going through to a hearts v st. mirren so i thought that me and the wife could make a day of it and after the football have a nice meal in edinburgh. wonderland models were out of stock of the model as was the rest of the uk i think..
