Outer Banks Voice The front lines of WWII were on the doorstep of the Outer Banks in 1942. In the first six months of that year, more than 360 Allied ships trying to cross the ...

A fourth boat, U-2501, was sunk in front of the bunker. A rare image of Elbe II's three scuttled U-boats, prior to the ...

Submarines have changed both naval warfare and global politics. Here are some of the most important submarines that ever ...

HMS Pathfinder was sunk in 1914 off the coast of Scotland. German submarines – called U-boats – had been active from the start of the war. They largely targeted British naval ships but they ...

U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...

But the new submarine technology of the German U-boats allowed them to avoid the blockade and sink several Allied warships and civilian ships. Heath said the Hawke was sunk by a torpedo from a U ...

A World War I Royal Navy warship was discovered in “remarkable” condition at the bottom of the North Sea—nearly 110 years later after it was sunk. The Edgar-class protected cruiser ...

The expeditions are a rich man's game - long, expensive and with no guarantee of uncovering a haul. But like many adventurers ...

Between March 1917 and the end of the war a month after the Leinster was hit, U-boats sunk 13 million tons of shipping bound for Britain, with the loss of about 5,000 lives. It was a policy which ...