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.

German U-boats were forced to fire ... Countless merchantmen were sunk on the assumption that they might be Q-ships, without proper protocols being followed.” Now that the legend has been ...

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

A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship in 1917. Henrietta Sandford, from Helston, shared diaries and letters ...

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.

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.

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 ...