During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ...

After the Kriegsmarine lost several top submariners in 1941, a major operation was launched to rescue Otto Kretschmer, the sole survivor, from a Canadian POW camp. Over the following year, an ...

Here’s an intriguing new aluminum voyaging boat from the builders of Pure Yachts in Kiel, Germany. Called the Pure 42, this new raised salon-design has twin rudders, a protected sail drive and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On 14 May 1945, almost a week after Britain and its allies celebrated victory in Europe, Hitler's defeated Atlantic U-boats berthed for the final time. The German submarines – the "U-boat peril ...

which is one of the last U-boats Germany built, was scuttled before seeing combat. She was raised and restored and is on display at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

They were designed to engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, luring in surfaced U-boats as British crews pretended to escape in “panic parties” before a German submarine commander blew up ...

What you call them depends on where they're made. A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The whole "boat ...