However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in an abandoned ... bar ...

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 ...

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 ...

That night, the crew heard rumors a German U-boat was in the area ... Three days later, the Maheno and its small crew were found stranded on the beach of Fraser Island, off the coast of Queensland ...

In the small hours of November 13 ... on the Bismarck's position before it got within range of U-boat and Luftwaffe protection. The German battleship pulled away amidst salvos and air attacks ...

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 ...

This would effectively destroy "U-boat alley" by transforming German U-boats into little more ... if the ice involved could be kept frozen by a small motor and a cooling system.

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... One of the camouflaged vessels was the small warship HMS M33, here at ...

The men were given a small room and lab equipment ... team solved the depth charge problem and successful attacks on German U-boats increased by a factor of five. Shockley's main weapon was ...

Outer Banks Voice The front lines of WWII were on the doorstep of the Outer Banks in 1942. In the first six months of that year, more than 360 Allied ships trying to cross the ...

BRITAIN’S deal with France to intercept small boats is being reviewed ... the numbers that we’re seeing — record numbers.” German migration commissioner Joachim Stamp has proposed sending ...

Across the road from the ruins, five orange-coloured boats lie in front of a two-storey, weather-worn building, with a sign that reads: “Hondeklip Bay Small Vessel Safety Monitoring Center ...