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 ...

On the afternoon of December 13, 1917, the HMS Stephen Furness was sailing through the northern Irish Sea on its way to Liverpool for repairs. The crew was very cautious, changing course every 10 ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

The crew of the submarine U-1206 were forced to abandon the vessel after its high tech toilet malfunctioned; its wreckage ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the night ... It was carrying 270 souls when it sank, 99 of whom perished.

UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two. RFA (Royal Fleet ...

was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible, taking 200 people on board, with another 200 in lifeboats.

A port official said he was told the North Sea collision produced "a massive fireball" and the cargo ship's owner said one ...

She then [sank], being holed in four or five places ... Auten argued in his book. German U-boats were forced to fire, lose thousands of shells and waste time rearming back in port.