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The [[aircraft carrier]] HMS ''Courageous'' was sunk by a German submarine on September 12, 1939, and the carrier ''Ark Royal'' narrowly missed a similar fate 2 days later. The [[Kriegsmarine]] scored an even greater victory in October, when U-47 penetrated the Royal Navy base at [[Scapa Flow]] and sank the WWI-era [[battleship]] ''Royal Oak''.<ref>Submarine Warfare, an Illustrated History, by Antony Preston, Thunder Bay Press, 1998</ref>
The [[aircraft carrier]] HMS ''Courageous'' was sunk by a German submarine on September 12, 1939, and the carrier ''Ark Royal'' narrowly missed a similar fate 2 days later. The [[Kriegsmarine]] scored an even greater victory in October, when U-47 penetrated the Royal Navy base at [[Scapa Flow]] and sank the WWI-era [[battleship]] ''Royal Oak''.<ref>Submarine Warfare, an Illustrated History, by Antony Preston, Thunder Bay Press, 1998</ref>
During World War II, [[U-boat]]s were primarily used to destroy the [[Allied]] transport vessels supplying the United Kingdom]] with the aim of causing supply shortages and forcing Britain to surrender. At first this was highly successful, but the Allies later developed many countermeasures, such as properly organized escorts, the Magnetic Airborne Detector that detected the change in local magnetic field caused by the U-boats, the 'Huff-Duff' system that tracked U-boats by their radio transmissions, improvements in depth-charges and [[sonar]].
During World War II, [[U-boat]]s were primarily used to destroy [[Lend-Lease]] transport vessels supplying the United Kingdom with the aim of causing supply shortages and forcing Britain to surrender. At first this was highly successful, but the Allies later developed many countermeasures, such as properly organized escorts, the Magnetic Airborne Detector that detected the change in local magnetic field caused by the U-boats, the 'Huff-Duff' system that tracked U-boats by their radio transmissions, improvements in depth-charges and [[sonar]].
The primary weapons of U-boats were [[torpedo]]es.
The primary weapons of U-boats were [[torpedo]]es.