The SM UC-55 U-boat had been laying mines between Shetland and Orkney when it was forced to surface. A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland.
The Type seven and Type nine were the striking force of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic - a German attempt ...
and constructed submarines for the Imperial German Navy during World War I. From as early as 1930, Howaldtswerke of Kiel took ...
or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.