Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three small boats carrying Houthi militants in the Red Sea on Sunday, after U.S. warships responded to a distress call from a merchant vessel, military ...

The wrecks of a World War One U-boat and two merchant ships containing 15 cast iron cannon have been given protected status. The submarine, off the coast of Whitby, sank 40 ships before being ...

With only 35 active U-boats, Germany began sinking British merchant ships faster than they could be built, and the Germans got very serious about submarines. They launched several accelerated ...

By midday, the German submarine U48 - given licence to roam beyond the usual U-boat range - had ... being taken out of the boat altogether. The ship by now was sinking and we had to get the ...

In response, merchant ships travelled in convoys, protected by the Royal Navy. Yet the Mediterranean remained one of the most dangerous sea passages in the world. U-boats were sinking allied ships ...

On May 15, 1969, the USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, sank while under construction ...

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 ...

On October 23, 1941, US Navy destroyer USS Reuben James left Newfoundland to escort a convoy bound for Britain. Two days later, the German U-boat U-552 left the French port of St. Nazaire to prowl ...

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...

Toward the end of September, the High Command authorized "seizure or sinking without exception" for merchant ships trying to radio for help when ordered to stop. A week later, U-boats received the ...