World War II began. Germany then had 57 U-boats in ... The 18 months between July 1940 and December 1941 were known, to the German submarine force, as the "happy time." Fleet headquarters in ...

The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the ...

The sub was meant to return to the port of Beirut by October 17, but failed to surface. It was assumed the vessel had been struck by a German mine. Rescuers began searching for the missing sub in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning from a war patrol. As in World War I, Germany developed several classes of U-boat.