U.S. warplanes blasted the U-boat during target practice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A team of shipwreck hunters has ...

The German navy used the Unterseeboot, or U-boat, to sink 5,000 ships measuring more than 13 million gross register tons during the war. As the war geared up, the Germans and the British believed ...

Germany changed the tactic during WWI via unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant that German U-boats could attack without warning any vessel it came across. Germany sank the civilian vessel ...

Pekovic and his friend Rusty Cassway initially took his 45-foot R/V Explorer dive vessel to find the undiscovered wreck, using an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to hunt down the U-boat at a site ...

A 1915 drawing of a submerged WWI U-boat in British waters from The Illustrated War News. The number 65 is noteworthy as indicating either Germany's actual strength in submarines at the time or ...

Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden. U-boats stranded on the south coast of England after the surrender of Germany in the First World War are surrounded by onlookers on ...

To date, 10 German U-boats have been found in Belgian waters, making this the 11th such discovery, he said. [Photos: British Warships from WWI and WWII Discovered Near Norway] Although the sub's ...

The American destroyer was steaming alone in the Atlantic, 25 miles from Bishop Rock, off the southwest coast of Britain, unaware that it was being stalked by a U-boat, an enemy submarine.

They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

Explorers say they've found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship's captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went ...

A model U-boat has been created to commemorate the mass surrender of Germany's submarines on the Essex coast at the end of World War One. More than 160 U-boats surrendered at Harwich in November ...