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A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.
Video of the Dublin fishing vessel Leukos sunk by a German submarine off Tory island in March 1940 with loss of 11 lives.
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 ...
German submarine maker Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has received record orders, keeping the Kiel-based group busy into the 2040s. "We achieved great successes in the first half of the year ...
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 comparison, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first sub (the U.S.S. Holland) in ...
The UC-42 German submarine sank off Roches Point in the mouth of Cork Harbour on September 10, 1917, when a mine it was carrying exploded, killing all 27 sailors on board.
The exact location of the submarine remained unknown over the years, but it was identified in 2010 during seabed mapping for a pipeline project ...
The U.S. Navy sunk many German U-boat submarines in World War II. But then they captured one, right before the D-Day invasion.
A German U-boat from the First World War is likely to have been sunk deliberately rather than being handed to the Allies, according to a 3D map produced by researchers.
Researchers discovered the wreck of a World War II-era submarine off the coast of Norway this year. The HMS Thistle was a British sub that sank after being hit by a German vessel in 1940.
The U-534 is a German submarine of the type IXC/40, and one of only two survive. It was launched on September 3 1942 and used until May 1943 for training purposes and weapon testing.