For the first half of the 20th Century, the German U-boat was the most feared warship at sea. Even Churchill admitted “[t]he only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U ...
However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in an abandoned ... bar ...
This married couple loves to explore shipwrecks, and on this day they're heading to a location that attracts divers from ...
That was more submarines than the entire German U-boat fleet at the beginning of World ... and five times the underwater endurance of the small pre-war Type II. However, combat effectiveness ...
On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...
The "U-boat peril", as Winston Churchill described German submarine power ... part of the island to the Germans and they had built a small airstrip there." Winter built an airstrip in the barren ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
Smugglers are selling dinghies for small-boat crossings to ... as a Syrian migrant that they store boats in a number of secret warehouses in the west German city. By car, Essen is about five ...
This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through. A five-month-long BBC ...
A suspected German spy identified a small hamlet in the ... where he scoped out the potential secret U-Boat submarine base. Upon returning to Germany, he broadcast Nazi propaganda in Irish from ...
The Star Outlaw 130 Self-Bailing Fishing Raft is a small raft equipped ... the water. The boat is buoyed by either two inflated tubes, as in the case of a pontoon boat, or a u-shaped inflated ...