UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two. RFA (Royal Fleet ...

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.

These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

In 1918, during World War I, initially the German U-boats (submarines) controlled the seas. It turns out the same thing happened in World War II.

The imagined ‘Great War at Sea’ became a cat-and-mouse game of German U-boats trying to sink supply ships in the Atlantic and the British Navy trying to stop them. In the 1880s, the German ...