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

A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland. The SM UC-55 submarine was sunk about eight miles south-east of Lerwick by the Royal Navy in 1917.

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

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?

On 15 October 1914, the squadron was on patrol off the coast of Aberdeen when HMS Hawke was struck by a single torpedo from German submarine U-9 This major attack in the early stages of the war ...

Last week, Pistorius and Gram laid the foundation stone for a Norwegian-German submarine maintenance center in Bergen, slated to become operational by the end of the decade. For the first time in ...

These deadly submarines patrolled the waters of ... did its awesome threat actually save lives? WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa? documentWW1: Why was the first German defeat in ...