They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface. A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.

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 ...

The food aboard a German U-boat could get really monotonous, especially after the first ten days or so, when all of the ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo ...

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 ...

Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ships and troop carriers from the US and other Allied nations. The underwater predators ...

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?

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 ...

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.