Now, what's really interesting is in 1914, when the war just begins, the German U boats still adhere to what are called prize rules. [00:02:50] Michael Muir: so naval warfare, operates under ...

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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-boat as a young sea cadet in a once-in-a ...

The submarine was one of Nazi Germany’s Type XXI ... the allies took the remaining Type XXI U-boats and used them to developed their own submarine technology. The Type XXI design inspired ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface. A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.

Credit: Public domain Peron's interest in German atomic technology is well-known and one U-Boat (U-234) captured by the allies while bound for Japan in May 1945, was found to be carrying 1,200 ...