The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface. A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.
Divers have found wreckage from a German World War Two U-boat near the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain. U-966 was heavily damaged by Allied bombers in November 1943, so the crew blew it up ...
The British Pathé clip of a news reel from the time, captured the attack by a German U-boat on 25 November 1941. At the time it was believed 859 crewmen died when the ship sank - it was later ...
This is a u-boat officers dress dirk (dagger) from WW2 made by Eichorn with original silver and leather hanger. The German submarine caused havoc with alied shipping for the greater part of the ...
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.
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 ...