Just weeks before World War I ended, a German U-boat attack turned the Irish Sea into a graveyard, claiming over 500 lives in ...

Australia is about to spend $10 billion on a new fleet of frigates, with German and Japanese ship makers battling for the ...

A World War I-era submarine, the USS F-1, lost in 1917 due to a collision, has been located over a century later by a joint expedition. The wreck, remarkably intact at over 1,300 feet deep, is ...

South of the border, neutral Ireland lived through not the second World War, but the Emergency. “It’s a very different day-to-day experience,” says Gallagher. “Life continues in the South.

During World War II, steel was in short supply, and German U-boats were devastating shipping in the Atlantic. The British War Office decided to use a material readily available in the North ...

German imperialism already focussed on Russia and Ukraine in the First World War and the Soviet Union in the Second. And just like back then, it endeavoured to dominate Europe in order to achieve ...

The German war cemetery Bergheim, situated on Grasberg hill, contains 5,308 graves from the Second World War. They were brought together from 225 places in the Haut-Rhin region. This is one of several ...

The USS Cobia submarine sank 13 ships and rescued seven downed American pilots during World War II. The US Navy submarine is open to the public for tours at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.

The German EMF type mine contained 350 kilograms of hexane explosive. The result of the explosion was the immediate and rapid sinking, with the submarine breaking into three separate pieces.

The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an ...