1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they ...

One notable example of a submarine neutralized near America happened on May 9, 1942, when a U.S. Coast Guard cutter dropped depth charges on the U-352 near Cape Hatteras, killing 15 and capturing ...

The Royal Navy captured German U-boat U-110 on May 9, 1941 in the North Atlantic, recovering an Enigma machine, its cipher keys, and code books that allowed codebreakers to read German signal traffic ...

212 feet long with a displacement of 675 tons, U-29 was dwarfed by Dreadnought, which at 527 feet long displaced around 20000 tons. The HMS Dreadnought also had a speed advantage over the German ...

U-1021 served with 31st U-boat Flotilla before disappearing in March 1945. Several other World War II submarines have been found in recent memory, including several German U-boats.

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.

Note the keyboard layout, which differs somewhat from the modern German QWERTZ keyboard. cormac70/Flickr 1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British ...