U-boats have been around since 1906, when the U-1 was first commissioned by the Imperial German Navy. By the time World War I crept around, the U-1 was already obsolete, but later models ...

Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement.

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

The wreck of a WWI German U-boat sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1922 has been discovered off the East Coast of the United States, about 40 miles off Virginia and at a depth of about 400 feet.

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.

A World War I-era German U-boat submarine has been found 100 years after it was wrecked in U.S. waters.. According to a report from National Geographic, the U-boat, which had the designation U-111 ...

It's the German submarine U-576, resting on its side, right where it sank in 1942. Its wooden deck plates have rotted away after 74 years underwater.

The U.S. Navy sunk many German U-boats in World War II. But then they captured one, right before the D-Day invasion. By Joshua Skovlund. Published Jun 4, 2024 6:57 PM EDT.

U-boats have been around since 1906, when the U-1 was first commissioned by the Imperial German Navy. By the time World War I crept around, the U-1 was already obsolete, but later models ...

Germany first started testing submarines in 1851, and by the end of WWI, had built some 334 U-boats (with another 226 under construction). They were vastly superior to U.S. subs.