The 80-year-old shipwreck is the V-1302 John Mahn, a fishing trawler that was used as a German patrol boat in WWII. The British Royal Air Force bombed the vessel in 1942 and the ship capsized off ...

A U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk during WWII has been found and photographed 20 miles off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The wreck of the YP-389, a converted fishing trawler, rests in about 300 feet of water in ...

Torn deck plating of the Vorpostenboot V-1302 John Mahn, a German patrol boat that sank in World War II. The wreck is leaking hazardous pollutants, such as explosives and heavy metals, into the ...

Torn deck plating and microbial colonies seen on the wreck of the V-1302 John Mahn, a German patrol boat that was bombed during World War II and sank in the North Sea. Flanders Marine Institute/VLIZ.

Research is currently focused on the wreck of the V-1302 John Mahn, a fishing trawler that was used as a German patrol boat in WWII. It was bombed by the British Royal Air Force and sank in 1942.

A German sailor immortalized the moment in a photograph, capturing a rare reminder of one of World War II’s least-known histories: when Nazi U-boats stalked the waters just off the United States ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to ...

Widely regarded as the finest submarine film ever made, the 1981 German-language entry follows the titular German U-boat's ...

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.