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-boat as a young sea cadet in a once-in-a ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

It costs €15,000 (£12,500) for the whole “package”, we are told. For that we would be given an inflatable dinghy, with an outboard motor and 60 life jackets, to get across the English Channel.