By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland. The SM UC-55 submarine was sunk about eight miles south-east of Lerwick by the Royal Navy in 1917.

members from the US Navy's Task Group 22.3 reunited with members of the German submarine's crew in Chicago, marking the first time the German sailors saw the U-boat since the war. "Part of what we ...

A wreck has been found off the Aberdeenshire coast that is believed to be a lost Royal Navy ... to German U-boats, even in the north of Scotland. The wreck, the last resting place of 524 sailors ...

More than 500 of the ship's crew died after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat ... Navy. The ship caught fire and, following an explosion, sank in less than eight minutes. Only 70 sailors survived.