Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... to Shetland on a submarine.

A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol. As in World War I, Germany developed several classes of U-boat.

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to build submarine bunkers ... for the Eble II-based ...

These stark statistics frame the narrative in The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (BBC Four). The Lady Olive was a so-called Q ship, a converted cargo vessel designed to lure U-boats ...

Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooper, but the ill-fated World War II ... the submarine’s remains based on its ...

Israel's Dolphin-class submarines provide a potent yet under-discussed dimension of its defense. Comprised of Dolphin-I and ...

The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...

The 2022 discovery of a suspected WWII U-boat in Argentine waters ... of it being a type IX submarine of the then Kriegsmarine.” “If proven to be a German submarine, it has been suggested ...