The type UC II class of submarine ... luring in surfaced U-boats as British crews pretended to escape in “panic parties” before a German submarine commander blew up their ship.

The U-boats' 15-knot surface speed was almost twice that of an average convoy and equal to that of most anti-submarine escorts. A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay 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.

On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the night of June 19, 1944. The wreck was first reported 14 years ago but was ...

Three weeks later U-9 sank three British cruisers in less than one hour. The German ... in 1935 U-boats were openly developed. The workhorse of the submarine fleet was the Type VIIC and over ...