The British subsequently developed an on-board escape system, whereby sailors waiting their turn to go out through a pressure ... was more submarines than the entire German U-boat fleet at the ...

Since the scuttling of the U-boat fleet in Operation Deadlight by the Royal Navy at the conclusion of World War II, the world has paid little attention to German submarines. Now, with the ...

Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... to Shetland on a submarine.

The wreck of a German submarine that sank during World War One has been found in the North Sea and officials believe 23 bodies may be inside it. The type UB-II submarine is said to be in good ...

In the U.S. Navy, submariners had a shocking 20 percent casualty rate. The German U-boat ... submarine and a “hunter-killer” submarine. “[The Thresher] had a cigar-shaped hull that was ...

Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...

French priest Marin Mersenne posited that a cylindrical, copper-sheathed craft would withstand water pressure ... in unrestricted submarine warfare. Namely, German U-boats could sink virtually ...

These stark statistics frame the narrative in The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (BBC Four). The Lady Olive was a so-called Q ship, a converted cargo vessel designed to lure U-boats ...

A Turkish commercial organisation has built and tested the pressure hull for a special operations and attack submarine for the first time. STM engineers began designing the pressure hull of the STM500 ...

The RHIB is also used by U.S. Navy sailors for visit board and search operations at sea. The 11-meter-long Naval Special Warfare Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (11m NSW RIBs) are constructed of ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines patrolled ... And curves on the hull could be mistaken for the shape of the ...

This post-war photo shows a French boat (left), a German late ... S-51 (the 162nd U.S. submarine). Thenceforth, America followed a different system: U.S. submarines carried a hull number and ...