Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its predecessors. Given the Kriegsmarine's ...

The U-boats were originally developed during World ... Another four men were killed due to British attack or drowning. Later, the wreckage of U-1206 was discovered in the 1970s by underwater ...

"On 21 October 1918 Reinhard Scheer, admiral of the German High Seas Fleet, ordered that all U-boat attacks should cease while negotiations were ongoing, but by then vital weeks had been lost ...

If the U-boat attacks continued, they could tip the scales of war. Civilian mariners clamored to get into the fight. Look what the British had pulled off at Dunkirk, they argued, when hundreds of ...

During the Arctic convoys, more than 3,000 Allied seamen lost their lives to the freezing conditions and attacks by U-boats or aircraft. There were 78 convoys, starting in August 1941, after ...

So on the 1st of February 1917 the Germans sent their U-boats in for the kill, ordering them to attack all merchant shipping supplying Britain. The devastation in the shipping lanes was catastrophic.