Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface. A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major powers possessed submarines, but their role was still undefined. Were they long ...