A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

The food aboard a German U-boat could get really monotonous, especially after the first ten days or so, when all of the best and freshest ingredients would have gone bad. This simple soup uses ...

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.