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

Germany changed the tactic during WWI via unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant that German U-boats could attack without warning any vessel it came across. Germany sank the civilian vessel ...

It was mines like the one in Termote’s backyard that sent more of Germany’s WWI U-boats to the bottom of the channel than anything else. Termote started diving the icy English Channel at age ...

The now-iconic geometric designs were intended to throw off the visual perception of German U-boats crews and prevent them from accurately targeting ships with torpedoes. Conventional wisdom ...

When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake ...

New technology was needed at sea too. Britain had the largest navy in the world but enemy submarines, called U-boats, were destroying ships. So a microphone was invented that you could use ...