Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

Jones was among 49 servicemen killed on the USS Eagle 56 after a German submarine lurking off the Maine coast, U-853, torpedoed the patrol boat. “It was the greatest loss of life in New England ...