The German U-boat was mighty, stealthy, and formidable, but there was one that met its downfall due to something so […] ...

The development of the automotive torpedo during World War I helped submarines to become more efficient by allowing them to ...

U-505 was a near absolute failure as a killer, failing to sink a single ship for multiple combat tours. The U-boat couldn't ...

Because of a difference in radio frequencies, he learned, those vessels didn’t find out about the torpedo attack until a message was sent from the Leopoldville to England and relayed back to France.

The British Pathé clip of a news reel from the time, captured the attack by a German U-boat on 25 November 1941. At the time it was believed 859 crewmen died when the ship sank - it was later ...

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 220. Illus., append., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 1591141486. The sinking of the British steamer Athenia on ...

Storm repairs and conservation work are being carried out on a 200-year-old church on Scotland's remote St Kilda archipelago which famously came under attack from a German U-boat during World War One ...

"On 21 October 1918 Reinhard Scheer, admiral of the German High Seas Fleet, ordered that all U-boat attacks should cease while negotiations were ongoing, but by then vital weeks had been lost ...

Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN-783) arrives onboard U.S. Naval Base Guam, Nov 26, 2024. US Navy Photo Naval Base Guam received the USS Minnesota (SSN-783) on Tuesday ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.