Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

The U-boat's surface armament included two antiaircraft guns and a 4.1-inch deck gun that could fire 15 rounds per minute. Life aboard the German submarine Built to endure longer voyages and dive ...

The Nazi commander ordered the submarine to the surface, where the U.S. Navy hammered ... knowing a damaged U-boat could be torn apart by explosives or sink at any minute. Working on some of ...

Related: WWI German sub spotted off French coast, 100 years after its crew surrendered The SM U-111 was one of five German U-boats from World ... below the surface, Petkovic said.

The whole "boat" designation comes straight from the German word for "undersea ... and were capable of taking on surface ...

The U-111, the last World War I-era German submarine to be discovered in ... to hunt down the U-boat at a site where they believed the wreckage to be. The crew compared what the ROV found to ...

"Over the course of that summer, German U-boats stalked defenseless tankers ... Lee about a mile beneath the Gulf's surface. Ballard is best known for his photos of the Titanic's wreckage ...

There is also speculation that the vessel may have been preparing to pick up a senior fleeing Nazi from Norway, with the intention of ferrying them to safety in South America. U-boat 534 was ...

They also obtained the navy cipher that was going to go into effect on July 15, 1944, laying out the settings for every U-boat and Nazi surface ship in their fleet. The German navy code changed ...