They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

and by the end of WWI, had built some 334 U-boats (with another 226 under construction). They were vastly superior to U.S. subs. Not only could a typical WWI U-boat could go faster (six knots at ...

As a Royal Navy volunteer in World War One, he had become all too aware of the threat from Germany’s U-boats. Wilkinson decided he could use his artistic skills to protect Allied ships.

A 15ft (4.6m) sculpture of a German U-boat has been created on an Essex beach to mark 100 years since 160 boats were surrendered there at the end of World War One. The U-boats, stretching in ...

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the ... Jeremy Paxman explains Lord Kitchener's iconic recruitment PR campaign of WW1. Crushing defeat in the first battle ...