The French Rubis-class submarine, Saphir, demonstrated its stealth prowess by sinking the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore ...
The 18 months between July 1940 and December 1941 were known, to the German submarine force, as the "happy time." Fleet headquarters in Germany directed U-boat operations by long-range radio.
U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...
The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, designed to replace the aging Ohio-class, come with a hefty price tag—around ...
In 2005, the USS San Francisco, a U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class submarine, struck an uncharted seamount at 30 miles per hour, ...
This is when he was offered the opportunity to travel from Orkney to Shetland on a submarine. The Orcadian newspaper, dated 23 August 1945, reported that 3,500 people visited the U-boat and ...
a seaman on the U-boat, the UC-18, when it was torpedoed near Guernsey. Seaman Hans Arthur Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest members of the submarine's crew. His great grand nephew, Andreas ...
Most people will never step on to a real submarine, much less a U-boat from World War II, so we only really have Hollywood films as a frame of reference. While it can’t be said with 100% ...
The Virginia Class attack submarine is the U.S. Navy’s newest undersea warfare platform and incorporates the latest in stealth, intelligence gathering and weapons systems technology. Attack ...
New technology was needed at sea too. Britain had the largest navy in the world but enemy submarines, called U-boats, were destroying ships. So a microphone was invented that you could use ...
A bipartisan group of senators wants more details from the Navy and the White House Office of Management and Budget on a ...