Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built to attack without consciousness. It was a weapon platform manned by people ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement ...

Once you break it out, it makes sense, and U-boat is simply a shortened version of the German word, though in Deutsch, they're referred to as U-Boot. Sadly, very few remain today. Where you can ...

A German U-boat torpedoed the Norlindo on May 4, 1942, off Southwest Florida’s Dry Tortugas, and it sank so quickly that five of the 28 men aboard did not have time to escape.

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.

A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland. The SM UC-55 submarine was sunk about eight miles south-east of Lerwick by the Royal Navy in 1917.