1945: A malfunctioning high-tech toilet forces a German U-boat to the surface off the coast of Scotland, where it is promptly attacked by a British aircraft. The boat is scuttled as the crew abandons ...

While the Type XXI subs sank no ships, their potential terrified Allied navies, prompting intensified anti-submarine efforts. Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically ...

U-966 was a Type VIIC U-boat, the most prolific type to serve in Nazi Germany’s undersea campaign to cripple maritime supply lines between the United Kingdom and the United States. Unable to drop the ...

U-995, the lone surviving example of a Type VIIC U-boat used by Nazi Germany during World War II, is shown on display in 2004 at the Laboe Naval Memorial in Laboe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, near ...

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Captain Walker and Mike Kemble It was just before midnight on the following night, as we reached the end of our beat, that we found one, and ...

Conventional U-boat submarines had been the backbone of the Kriegsmarine during the early stages of World War 2. Still, as allies developed more prominent and more powerful fleets, the outdated German ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Too much emphasis on wonder weapons distracts from practical war efforts. On May 4, 1945 one of the most advanced submarines in the world crept up to a British Royal ...

Earlier this month, searchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland in Denmark located a little-known but very important shipwreck from World War II in Skagerrak, the strait between Denmark and Norway. As ...

That action finished at about 1am. Not long after 4am I was once more flying up to the Bridge to learn that the radar watch had detected another U Boat on the surface. The sequence of events was the ...

Earlier this month, I was visiting relatives in the Washington, D.C., area and was fortunate enough to get some wise suggestions from my niece on writing. She spent years as an editor for a major ...

It was just before midnight on the following night, as we reached the end of our beat, that we found one, and once again, my ship was in luck. The moment was an awkward one, as the group was engaged ...