During the Battle of the Atlantic, Allied warships tasked with hunting German U-boats often faced as much danger as the ...

Utter darkness and a restless sea set the stage for what many historians consider the fiercest and most desperate naval ...

During World War II, German U-boats took advantage of this abundance of shipping traffic. Rather than actively hunt targets and expend their precious fuel supply, U-boats patiently waited for the ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

The German U-85 went down with all 46 hands aboard — the first German U-boat sunk by a U.S. Navy ship since America entered the conflict.

On September 12, 1942, the British troop transport Laconia fell prey to the German sub U-156. Full of civilians, military personnel, and prisoners of war, the ship was torpedoed, leading to an ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States.

Now, the British, obviously very vulnerable, to U boat attacks, developed a strategy to overcome that, and these were called Q ships. [00:03:18] Michael Muir: So the answer to a U boat is a Q ship.

The U.S. Navy sunk many German U-boat submarines in World War II. But then they captured one, right before the D-Day invasion.

WW1 German U-Boat's Situation Germany employed U-boats during WW1 as a formidable naval force. Germany pioneered the naval submarine business and used these types of submarines to help in its war ...

In April 1918, the German submarine, U-151, left the city of Kiel on Germany’s Baltic coast, and a month later, the U-boat reached the Mid-Atlantic coast.