Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By ...

Dark Seas. The Super Weapon that Turned German U-Boats into Scrap. Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025. In a top-secret effort led by the British Admiralty, a revolutionary ...

Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

The wreck of a WWI German U-boat sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1922 has been discovered off the East Coast of the United States, about 40 miles off Virginia and at a depth of about 400 feet.

Nazi Germany U-boats once prowled the oceans, but today, nearly a century after the end of World War II, several of the submarines lie at the bottom of the Black Sea. How the U-boats reached the ...

The wreck of the German U-Boat U-111 was intentionally sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1923 after it was captured at the end of the war. ... Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare.

The U-boat is part of a display at Birkenhead’s dock on Merseyside. The items uncovered include secret dispatches from Nazi high command, a rare enigma machine and even condoms ...

While a German U-boat could stay submerged for only 92 miles at a time, its full traveling range was about 8,000 nautical miles, or more than 9,000 miles. The distance to Buenos Aires from Hamburg is ...

The U.S. antisubmarine task force captured the Nazi submarine along with its crew, technology, encryption codes and a working Enigma cipher machine.