On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
From pirates to first flight, Coastal North Carolina can be called "the most historical place in the United States of America ...
The four merchant steamships — all laden with valuable iron ore — that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats in the waters off Lance Cove, Bell Island are a sombre reminder of how the ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
The man who’s a curator at The Military Museums and has held national leadership roles with the country’s military reserves ...
Royal Navy experts have confirmed the identity of a World War 1 wreck off the Scottish coast found in the summer as HMS Hawke.
In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats ... And the number of vessels sunk by U-boats had begun to fall. However, there is no definitive proof ...
The partners include the U.S. Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental ... Resolve Marine and Northstar Marine are working together to raise the boat, according to county officials.
The U-boat missed the Theseus with its first torpedo ... The only major wartime confrontation between the Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet took place at Jutland in May and June 1916.
Since 1942, iron-ore carriers that supplied the Allied war effort – until Hitler’s navy torpedoed them – have sat in ruins near Bell Island. Every Remembrance Day, a solemn ritual honours their sacrif ...