A laser scan reveals a sunken German U-boat off the Outer Banks in eerie fluorescent detail. Resting on the bottom in 700 feet of water, it entombs dozens of German sailors.

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement.

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

A World War II German U-boat, sunk more than 72 years ago, has been discovered off the coast of North Carolina, NOAA announced Tuesday.

Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By comparison, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first sub (the U.S.S. Holland) in ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

A World War I-era German U-boat submarine has been found 100 years after it was wrecked in U.S. waters.. According to a report from National Geographic, the U-boat, which had the designation U-111 ...

Once you break it out, it makes sense, and U-boat is simply a shortened version of the German word, though in Deutsch, they're referred to as U-Boot. Sadly, very few remain today. Where you can ...

It's the German submarine U-576, resting on its side, right where it sank in 1942. Its wooden deck plates have rotted away after 74 years underwater.