Is a submarine a ship or a boat?
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By naval tradition, submarines are still usually referred to as "boats" rather than as "ships", regardless of their size. In other navies with a history of large submarine fleets they are also "boats"; in German it is an Unterseeboot or U-Boot (under-sea boat) and in Russian it is a подводная лодка (underwater boat).