For the first half of the 20th Century, the German U-boat was the most feared warship at sea. Even Churchill admitted “[t]he only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U ...

On March 16, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler renounced the Treaty of Versailles. A few weeks later, the first of a new series of U-boat, U-1, entered service. Captain Dönitz defined his ...

Did you know? In WWII the British troop ship, RMS Laconia, was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator who was missing presumed dead has been revealed thanks to the log book of a German submarine captain. The family of Leslie Fisher, who was a 33-year-old ...

Hans Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest crew members of the UC-18 U-boat when it was torpedoed during ... military historian and regional director of the German War Graves Commission, worked ...

Atmospheric WWI spy tale. A German U-Boat captain sent on a spying mission to Scotland finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... Most were painted a uniform shade of black or grey. We commonly associate ...

A newly released video shows members of the U.S. Coast Guard rescuing ... Two days later, the boat's owner notified the Coast Guard that the captain went to the vessel to make repairs and hadn ...

On April 11, the U.S. Navy bought Holland VI for $150,000 ... This post-war photo shows a French boat (left), a German late-model coastal boat UB-133 (middle), and an early model UB-24 (right).

A Guernsey-made documentary about a U-boat which sank during World War One ... Christian Lübcke, military historian and regional director of the German War Graves Commission, worked with the ...