In 2001, a pint-sized German diesel sub snuck past an entire carrier strike group managing to get within ramming distance of ...

The German submarine U-977, a Type VIIC U-boat, became the center of one of World War II’s most intriguing post-war mysteries.After Germany's surrender in May 1945, U-977 set off on a secretive 66-day ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement ...

Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By comparison, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first sub (the U.S.S. Holland) in ...

A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

Prien was keen to get one more prize to keep himself at the top of the rankings of German U-Boat aces – a contest judged simply by the tonnes of enemy shipping they had sent to the seabed.

Once you break it out, it makes sense, and U-boat is simply a shortened version of the German word, though in Deutsch, they're referred to as U-Boot. Sadly, very few remain today. Where you can ...

Slow Roll for German U-boat . When operational, the U17 was powered by two 4-stroke MTU 600-horsepower diesel-electric engines, and had a cruising speed of 10 knots surfaced and 17 knots submerged.

A World War I-era German U-boat submarine has been found 100 years after it was wrecked in U.S. waters.. According to a report from National Geographic, the U-boat, which had the designation U-111 ...

At the helm was Herbert Pustkuchen, who was to become one of Germany’s most deadly U-boat aces. ... a German U-boat sank the liner Lusitania in the Irish Sea, and 128 Americans died.

It's the German submarine U-576, resting on its side, right where it sank in 1942. Its wooden deck plates have rotted away after 74 years underwater.