The German government approved the clandestine construction of 16 new U-boats. The U-1, the first of a new breed of German U-boat. On March 16, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler renounced the Treaty ...

The final resting place of a First World War ship that has been lost since 1917 has been discovered using new technology. HMS ...

Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

The wreck of a German submarine that sank during World War One has been found in the North Sea and officials believe 23 bodies may be inside it. The type UB-II submarine is said to be in good ...

During WWII, Germany built 1,162 destructive "U-boats," which is short for the German word "Unterseeboot," or undersea boat. By April 1917, 430 Allied and civilian vessels were sunk by German U-boats.

On 20 November 1918 - nine days after Armistice Day - the first batch ... meet one of the U-boats outside Harwich Harbour In the following days, the U-boats and up to 50 other German vessels ...

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 ...

Before divers swam around the remains of the cruiser, no one had seen her since she was torpedoed by a German submarine on October 15 1914 ... The team consulted both the war diary (log) of the U-boat ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats ... This would not have made a difference to a WW1 U-boat commander hunting slow merchant ships.

Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...

The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 5:05 PM EST For the first time in 107 years ...

The boat had cost ... and sent her to war as U-153. One of the first of the UA class was built as a blockade-breaking civilian cargo submarine operated by the North German Lloyd Line.