Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

Divers have discovered a "long-lost" German submarine from WWI - and the ... designed to lure attacking U-boats to the surface before opening fire. It is thought to be the only historical case ...

British ships were blockading German ports, but the U-boat was a new and terrifying way ... Kitchener's iconic recruitment PR campaign of WW1. Crushing defeat in the first battle of WW1.

It is thought the items were illegally taken from the U-boat wreck by a diver off the east Yorkshire coast. One of the propellers has been handed back to the German Navy in Plymouth, while the ...

U-boats were very vulnerable ... did its awesome threat actually save lives? WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa? documentWW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?

After implementing a naval blockade of Germany and Austria-Hungary in August 1914, as the war dragged on the British Admiralty added more and more products to the list of items considered “war ...

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-861. About 100 lives were lost when the Vital ...