World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...

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.

He survived the sinking of Charybdis by German Torpedo boats near the Channel Islands in late 1943 and went onto see action in Normandy and in the Far East. During his visit to Lympstone ...