2,937 ships were sunk by German U-Boats during WW2 — per the Sunken Ships of the Second World War – and that statistic doesn't account for ships sunk by Allied submarines, nor the many ...
Submarine commander Howard W. Gilmore. (Naval History and Heritage Command) With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing ...
These stark statistics frame the narrative in The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (BBC Four). The Lady Olive was a so-called Q ship, a converted cargo vessel designed to lure U-boats ...
The news of the sinking of a German submarine by a Woolston-built destroyer spread rapidly throughout Southampton, eliciting widespread jubilation among the populace. The early reports ...
IN THE final days of August one of Britain’s four nuclear-armed Vanguard-class submarines—the government will not say which—limped back into the Scottish port of Faslane. Weary submariners ...