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.

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to ...

During the Second World War the Germans experimented with an interesting rotary wing design known as a 'rotor kite'. These ...

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. Patinkin's research revealed ...

Here are the week's top reads on providencejournal.com: Columnist Mark Patinkin says he's long been intrigued by mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters.

This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat.