Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

Through assiduous research and well-paced narrative, Simon Parkin has given us an extraordinary, little-known story from World War II: the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. Its subjects ...

Less than a year before, a German U-boat sank the liner Lusitania in the ... As the water rose inside the hull, the crewmen may have cut short their inevitable agony by shooting themselves with ...

Seven-year-old Vương Ngọc Lan ascended from a pit of fish guts and human waste inside a 50-foot dinghy to a 935-foot tanker ...

Comet’s kin helped “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War, and roamed beaches in search of German U-boats in World ... window when the dog went inside, like he too deserved ...

“We weren’t leaving without our boys,” Senior Chief Master Diver Carlos Hernandez, who led the U.S. Navy dive ... a small inflatable boat with Maik, his 4-year-old German shepherd.

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people. In 1921, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, Sun Yat Sen, president of ...

Once Germany's unconditional surrender had been agreed, all U-boat crews in the North Sea were ordered by their superiors to surface and display a black flag, indicating their surrender.