Submarines have changed both naval warfare and global politics. Here are some of the most important submarines that ever ...
Timothy J. Runyan and Jan M. Copes (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994), pp. 3–21; “The German U-boat Campaign in World War II,” in Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755–2009, Newport Paper 40, ed.
This section of water was a notorious hunting ground for German U-boats. The U-boat was the newest and deadliest threat faced by allied shipping. In 1917, the Germans began a campaign of ...
That was more submarines than the entire German U-boat fleet at the beginning of World ... For the losing three-week Philippine campaign, with potential targets including 76 loaded transports ...
Elbert Hubbard joked before sailing that if the Germans sank the Lusitania, going down with the ship would secure his fame.
Ever since the German U-boat campaign of 1917, the only serious form of blockade has been unrestricted submarine warfare. Both enemy and neutral ships sailing within a declared exclusion zone are sunk ...
A team of divers found what they believed was HMS Hawke about 70 miles east of Fraserburgh in "remarkable" condition.
Kennedy’s, warning not to actively campaign on behalf of European Jewry and to involve ... And in Superman #23, we witness a visibly enraged Superman as seen through the periscope of a German U-Boat, ...
Arguably the most significant threat to Great Britain during the Second World War was the German U-Boat campaign during the Battle of the Atlantic. Early trans-Atlantic shipping losses were ...
In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... she served during the Gallipoli Campaign, and is one of three surviving ...
More than 500 of the ship's crew died when it was attacked by a German U-boat in October 1914. The ship caught fire and, following an explosion, sank in less than eight minutes with just 70 ...