Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or killed.

For three years, Ukraine has waged an unconventional naval campaign that fundamentally altered the balance of power in the Black Sea. What began as an improvised effort by four engineers working with ...

With the U.S. Navy fielding 11 active carriers, the fleet represents a fearsome deterrent and weapon that can be deployed globally. However, they do make big, lucrative targets. For opposing forces, ...

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In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat. The U-166 ...

Submarines appeared on the global stage during World War I, when Germany unleashed a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 to sever supply lines between Great Britain and its allies. In ...

The US and South Korea are reporting that North Korea is believed to have lost one of its submarines. The vessel was operating off the coast of North Korea when it disappeared, and the North Korean ...

Submarines have been around since the 17th century, and while we know much about modern nuclear subs, the older boats are less well known. This is especially true of those used during World War I, as ...

October 11, 1943 - A submarine, later dedicated to the city of Wahoo, was sunk by Japan on Oct. 11, 1943. The submarine was under the command of Lieutenant Commander DW. Morton and 79 other crew ...

Submarines mauled shipping and threatened the survival of many nations in the second world war. One way to fight back was with anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Attacking a submarine from the air was a ...