In the Caribbean Sea, the German submarine U-94 surfaced, wounded and desperate after a failed ambush. HMCS Oakville quickly ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have ...

Photo: John Kearney One of the first Irish vessels to have been sunk during World War II has ... that the U-boat spotted six trawlers near Tory, and thought they were forming a patrol line.

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 ...

Well, in 2017, I received an invitation to ride on the 78'x20'8"x5'3" SS Sudden Jerk, the museum’s restored WWII patrol torpedo ... crews hunted German ships, mostly at night, as the Allies pressed ...

In September 1914, the German U-boat fleet made its first kill when it British warship, killing all 250 sailors onboard. During World War-II, Hitler’s naval fleet had 57 advanced submarines ...

During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the ... Its primary objective in the Atlantic: to spot and report German U-boats, which were wreaking havoc on Allied ships.

Oscar Boudreaux, was picked up by Danish fishermen, only to be spotted by a German patrol boat ... says he always felt that his chapter in WWII was not completely closed. The wreckage of the ...

2000's Greyhound is a great example of that, as a visceral depiction of one of the U.S. Navy's missions during World War II escorting ships ... by a Navy river patrol boat. What makes that ...

In April 1945, a U.S. naval patrol boat sank off the coast of Maine and ... Just a couple weeks before Nazi Germany formally surrendered in World War II, the USS Eagle, PE-56, was out on a routine ...

was tragically destroyed by a German U-boat, U-552, marking the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by enemy action in WWII. This incident claimed 115 lives and served as a somber introduction to the looming ...