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?

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

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 ... Valhalla have become the first to inspect its wreckage.

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 ...

Meanwhile the British and French seized thousands of tons of German ... U.S., by seizing large numbers of their merchant ships. For their part the Germans’ first experiment with unrestricted U ...

It is thought the items were illegally taken from the U-boat wreck by a diver off the east Yorkshire coast. One of the propellers has been handed back to the German Navy in Plymouth, while the ...

British ships were blockading German ports, but the U-boat was a new and terrifying ... Kitchener's iconic recruitment PR campaign of WW1. Crushing defeat in the first battle of WW1.