A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol. As in World War I, Germany developed several classes of U-boat.

Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... to Shetland on a submarine.

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to build submarine bunkers ... for the Eble II-based ...

The deepest a submersible of any kind has ever descended, the BBC reported in May 2019, was 10,927 meters or approximately ...

lurking German submarines. 2,937 ships were sunk by German U-Boats during WW2 -- per the Sunken Ships of the Second World War ...

The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...

“The U.S.S. Edsall served valiantly during WWII, most notably in the early Pacific campaign. She operated alongside ...

New technology was needed at sea too. Britain had the largest navy in the world but enemy submarines, called U-boats, were destroying ships. So a microphone was invented that you could use ...