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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 ...
Bert Whoriskey was 14-years-old when a fleet of U-boats berthed outside his home On 14 May 1945, almost a week after Britain and its allies celebrated victory in Europe, Hitler's defeated Atlantic ...
The German submarines – the "U-boat peril" as Churchill had called them - had been the Allies' principal threat at sea during the Battle of the Atlantic, a campaign that raged throughout the war.
A commercial salvage team is working on a plan to recover a sunken fishing boat near Grays Harbor. On Friday night, the Coast Guard suspended a search for its missing captain.
MILWAUKEE — Two boats are stranded along Milwaukee's lakefront as a salvage operation to remove an abandoned vessel encountered complications. The first boat, named "Deep Thought," has been ...
Commander Pierre de Morsier and his lone corvette, FFL Lobelia, are all that stand between Convoy SC-118 and a relentless pack of German U-boats. Two ships have already fallen to the enemy’s ...
The boats are given to countries for defense purposes where there is a U.S. interest in regional security, for example, for security cooperation agreements throughout Central and South America ...
Then the U-boat “got the greatest surprise,” Simpson continued, “and down went ports and she got a salvo into her. Chap in conning tower blown to bits, also man on gun.
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 ...
Plans are moving forward to salvage two vessels that ran aground on Maui’s shores during a severe storm, including the former Lahaina-based fishing vessel Hinatea, which was beached at Charley ...
In terms of interior luxury, U-Boat Worx says the electric Super Sub offers a comparable experience to first-class travel – a step up from the “business-class comfort” of its other models.