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

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 ...

A World War One German U-boat has been ... this is the UC-55." U-boats were used by Germany in both world wars, inflicting a heavy toll on merchant ships and military vessels.

The submarine UC-75 was responsible ... Destroyers under the waves A German U-boat surfaces after sinking a British merchant ship in the North Sea in 1916 Built and launched in 1916, the U-boat ...

Merchant ships were also at risk ... Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

German naval commanders began to order submarines to sink merchant ships on sight. First Sea Lord Sir John (“Jackie”) Fisher said he would have done the same. Churchill, seeing an opportunity ...