On March 16, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler renounced the Treaty of Versailles. A few weeks later, the first of a new series of U-boat, U-1, entered service. Captain Dönitz defined his ...

Did you know? In WWII the British troop ship, RMS Laconia, was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible ...

Fryatt, the master of the British merchant ship Brussels, was a familiar figure on the Rotterdam-to-Southampton route.

Krause switched to another U-boat the month before and survived the war. Sometimes U-boat captains even towed the lifeboats containing the crew of the sunken ship close to land, so the crew could ...

Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke ... Explorers say they’ve found a British warship sunk by a German U-boat in WWI Explorers say they’ve found ...

The HMS Hawke, a 387-foot cruiser, sank on October 15, 1914, after it was hit by a single torpedo from a German U-boat ...

A German U-Boat captain sent on a spying mission to Scotland finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress. Skip to content ITVX Homepage ...

A stolen propeller from a World War One U-boat is being returned to Germany ... honour those who died during the conflict. Captain Matthias Schmidt, German Naval Attache said: "The propeller ...

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.

Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke ...