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What are U-boats?

What are U-boats? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of U-boat
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German U-boats sank the battleship Barham in the east and the carrier Ark Royal, which had helped keep Malta supplied with aircraft, in the west.
In 1940, the U-boats started to take a real toll against merchant shipping.
At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
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.
As part of the surrender terms, the Royal Navy received 176 U-boats as spoils of war.
Just as in the First World War, U-boats nearly brought the UK to its knees.

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