On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
But on its approach, the hospital ship struck a German U-boat mine. HMHS Anglia would never reach its destination, and its ...
Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
Only last year the Melbourne Pallottine order accept publicly the evidence that Silvester was not a U-boat captain and had ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...
Since 1942, iron-ore carriers that supplied the Allied war effort – until Hitler’s navy torpedoed them – have sat in ruins near Bell Island. Every Remembrance Day, a solemn ritual honours their sacrif ...
Toward the end of the First World War, the unarmed hospital ship Llandovery Castle was heading to England to pick up wounded ...
“For 50 years, he’s been lying in an unmarked grave and there was never a funeral,” said Wells, 52, of his Brockville-born ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...
A brand-new Disney cruise ship rushed to the aid of a catamaran taking on water in the Atlantic on Sunday and plucked four ...