On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...

U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three small boats carrying Houthi militants in the Red Sea on Sunday, after U.S. warships responded to a distress call from a merchant vessel, military ...

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

The wrecks of a World War One U-boat and two merchant ships containing 15 cast iron cannon have been given protected status. The submarine, off the coast of Whitby, sank 40 ships before being ...

A stolen propeller from a World War One U-boat is being returned to Germany after being recovered in Wales. The submarine UC-75 was responsible for sinking 56 merchant ships and two warships ...

Toward the end of September, the High Command authorized "seizure or sinking without exception" for merchant ships trying to radio for help when ordered to stop. A week later, U-boats received the ...

The captain issued a distress around 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, reporting his “boat was taking on water near the SS Iberia shipwreck with three people in the water,” the USCG said in a Nov. 13 news ...

In response, merchant ships travelled in convoys, protected by the Royal Navy. Yet the Mediterranean remained one of the most dangerous sea passages in the world. U-boats were sinking allied ships ...

A Disney Cruise Line ship rescued four people from a sinking catamaran in Bermuda on ... launched one of its small boats and rescued all four passengers. The four individuals were recovered ...

With only 35 active U-boats, Germany began sinking British merchant ships faster than they could be built, and the Germans got very serious about submarines. They launched several accelerated ...