World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly ...

U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of ... or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II.

When most people think of World War One, they think of trenches and machine ... Germany changed tack, putting their efforts into submarines called U-boats, which were cheap and could slip through ...

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 ...