A decoy British Q-ship adapted to lure German submarines to their demise ... Q-Ships Against the U-Boats in the First World War. “We will frighten the British flag off the face of the waters ...

The surrender of the German U-boats is remembered by a Derry man who was there 80 years ago.

As in World War I, only one verified German submarine atrocity is on record. In March 1944, U-boat commander Heinz Eck, on his first combat mission, ordered his crew to kill all survivors of the ...

A U-Boat Class II submarine (this one depicted, UB-35, was the same class as UB-29) prowls the open seas. Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo You get an idea before you even walk in his ...

Through assiduous research and well-paced narrative, Simon Parkin has given us an extraordinary, little-known story from World War II: the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. Its subjects ...

who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters ...

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the salt marshes of Kent lies the metal carcass of a First World War German U-boat. British ships were blockading German ports ...

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

The first replicated World War I experience ... A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol.