The Type seven and Type nine were the striking force of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic - a German attempt to cut off the British Isles and force the Allies to surrender. In the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The German Type 212 and 214 fuel-cell boats are at least as stealthy as their nuclear-powered cousins, if not more so, and each individual torpedo carried can be just ...

Several American sailors climbed aboard the German submarine U-505, focused on saving it from sinking into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They did not know if the Nazi submariners who dove ...

One of the deadliest military machines of World War II was the infamous German U-boat. While most people know a little about U-boats and are more than aware that they're submarines, one thing that's ...

People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of those many ways. For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey, but ...

German U-boats were forced to fire, lose thousands of shells and waste time rearming back in port. In the eyes of the British public, each member of the Q-ships’ crews was “another St. George or ...

Binoculars, plates emblazoned with swastikas among finds. Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew ...

In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

During a recent exploration off the coast of Shetland in Scotland, divers discovered a German U-boat from World War One. The term "U-boat" is derived from the German word "unterseeboot," meaning ...

A World War I-era German U-boat submarine has been found 100 years after it was wrecked in U.S. waters. The U-111, the last World War I-era German submarine to be discovered in U.S. waters, was sunk ...

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.