German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-571 had a displacement of 769 tonnes (757 long tons) when at the surface and 871 tonnes (857 long tons) while submerged. She had a total length of 67.10m (220ft 2in), a pressure hull length of 50.50m (165ft 8in), a beam of 6.20m (20ft 4in), a height of 9.60m (31ft 6in), and a draught of 4.74m (15ft 7in). The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder superchargeddiesel engines producing a total of 2,800 to 3,200 metric horsepower (2,060 to 2,350kW; 2,760 to 3,160shp) for use while surfaced, two Brown, Boveri & Cie GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of 750 metric horsepower (550kW; 740shp) for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two 1.23m (4ft)propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to 230 metres (750ft).
U-boat is the anglicised version of the German word U-Boot[ˈuːboːt], a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat". While the German term refers to any submarine, the English one (in common with several other languages) refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role (commerce raiding), enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire, and the United States to the United Kingdom and (during the Second World War) to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean.
The first submarine built in Germany was the three-man Brandtaucher, which sank to the bottom of Kiel harbor during its first test dive. The vessel was designed in 1850 by the inventor and engineerWilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel. Brandtaucher was later rediscovered during dredging operations in 1887, and raised sixteen years later and placed in a museum in Germany.
The film was financially successful and generally well-received by critics in the USA and won an Academy Award for sound editing. The fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism since, in reality, it was British personnel from HMSBulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941), months before the United States had even entered the war. The anger over the inaccuracies even reached the British Parliament, where Prime MinisterTony Blair stated that the film was an "affront" to British sailors.
Before becoming a romantic heartthrob, McConaughey starred in U-571, a solid submarine thriller set during World War II. When German submarine U-571 is damaged, the U.S ... destroy a nearby German vessel.
During World War II, the German submarine U-571 manages to sink an Allied merchant ship, but its engines are badly damaged, This causes Capt ... to capture the U-571 and steal its Enigma coding machine.
Set during the Battle of the Atlantic (a continuous campaign lasting more than five years), the first eight minutes of the movie center on the German crew of the U-571 submarine as its engines are ...
However, on release it was lambasted by historians, who pointed out that a British team had captured an Enigma machine from a German submarine a full year before U-571 was set.
U-571 (2000) ...Excellent cinematography and an interesting plot accompanied by a talented cast and crew make U-571 a tense thriller ... When a German U-571 submarine with a sophisticated encryption machine onboard is sunk during a World War II battle at...
When the German U-boat U-571 sends out an SOS signal, the US submarine S-33 is modified to resemble a German vessel, in an attempt to steal the Enigma machine coding device and sink the U-boat.
