Germany changed the tactic during WWI via unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant that German U-boats could attack without warning any vessel it came across. Germany sank the civilian vessel ...

They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

It was mines like the one in Termote’s backyard that sent more of Germany’s WWI U-boats ... I knew it was a German UB II-class submarine,” remembers Termote. “After 30 U-boats, you just ...

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...

listening in on German U-boats. Plain language traffic was translated and passed on to the navy. But coded signals went directly to Bletchley Park, where mathematicians and analysts developed ...

U-boats were very vulnerable ... did its awesome threat actually save lives? WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa? documentWW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?

Did you know? Winston Churchill claimed that the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that ever really frightened him during WWII. This was when German submarines attacked the Atlantic lifeline to ...

Atmospheric WWI spy tale. A German U-Boat captain sent on a spying mission to Scotland finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.

Work is underway to extract oil from a British tanker sunk by a German U-boat off Long Island during World War II. A team has been at the site of the tanker, named Coimbra, since April 29 and has ...