At dawn on Feb. 28, 1942, according to the Navy, it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Delaware. The crew of the USS Jacob Jones spotted the German torpedo coming at them ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship ...

was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible, taking 200 people on board, with another 200 in lifeboats.

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 ...

Two days later, the German U-boat U-552 left the French port of St ... US merchant ships had already been sunk in the Atlantic, and in mid-October, another US destroyer was hit by a torpedo ...

A 24-year-old Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with allegedly plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a neo-Nazi-inspired ... a federal complaint. U.S. Department of Justice ...

The four merchant steamships — all laden with valuable iron ore — that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats in the waters off Lance Cove, Bell Island are a sombre reminder of how the ...

UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two. RFA (Royal Fleet ...