At dawn on Feb. 28, 1942, according to the Navy, it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Delaware. The crew of the USS Jacob Jones spotted the German torpedo coming at them ...

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

In just eighteen minutes, the Lusitania hit the sea bed, and it's a miracle 761 people managed to survive. 3. 12,850,815 was the total recorded tonnage of shipping sunk by WWI U-Boats While Germany's ...

Future Grand Admiral Dönitz’s U-Boat is sunk off Malta and he is captured by the British. He is sent to Manchester where he appears to be mad (although some observers think his madness is fake) and ...

The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 For the first time in 107 years, something from the USS ...

The Super Sub is the fastest personal submarine in the world, also offering exceptional maneuverability for climbs and sharp ...

Did you know? In WWII the British troop ship, RMS Laconia, was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible ...