Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... to Shetland on a submarine.
Since 1942, iron-ore carriers that supplied the Allied war effort – until Hitler’s navy torpedoed them – have sat in ruins near Bell Island. Every Remembrance Day, a solemn ritual honours their sacrif ...
Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooper, but the ill-fated World War II ... submarine succumbed to one of the German ...
The remains of the first British ship to be sunk in WW2 appear to have been identified ... lying 200m down on Rockall Bank, off Ireland. A German submarine torpedoed the ship hours after Britain ...
The new UK-Germany Trinity House Agreement will see German submarine-hunting planes fly from Scotland to patrol the North Atlantic for Russian vessels targeting undersea cables. And German arms ...
Shipwreck hunters have located a long-lost World War II submarine which sank ... patrol the Aegean Sea, in which German forces had planted naval mines. The submarine was reported missing on ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...