A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol. As in World War I, Germany developed several classes of U-boat.

Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... to Shetland on a submarine.

The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to build submarine bunkers ... for the Eble II-based ...

The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...

The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...

The USS New Jersey made waves when it was commissioned — the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically ...

German submarine-hunting planes ... a multinational air unit based at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland between 1981 and 1999. Meanwhile, the US regularly deploys strategic bombers to the UK to work ...

New technology was needed at sea too. Britain had the largest navy in the world but enemy submarines, called U-boats, were destroying ships. So a microphone was invented that you could use ...