Sparked by the effectiveness of German U-boats, GUPPY aimed to modernize American submarines, starting with reverse engineering German Type XXI U-boats. -The program, which ran from 1947 to 1963 ...

It is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. AlMare via Wikimedia Commons ... From as early as the end of 1939, the ...

At the end of the year, a German Naval Staff study noted the ... U-3008, one of only two Type XXI U-boats to make a wartime patrol. It was brief: The war ended while the boat was en route.

German forces in Denmark had surrendered the ... After the war, the allies took the remaining Type XXI U-boats and used them to developed their own submarine technology. The Type XXI design ...

The wreck of a German submarine that sank during World War One has been found in the North Sea and officials believe 23 bodies may be inside it. The type UB-II submarine is said to be in good ...

Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...

This is a u-boat officers dress dirk (dagger) from WW2 made by Eichorn with original silver and leather hanger. The German submarine caused havoc with alied shipping for the greater part of the ...

On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...

Hans Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest crew members of the UC-18 U-boat when it was torpedoed ... a merchant ship to trick submarines - a type of boat known as a Q ship. The Lady Olive also ...

This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through. A five-month-long BBC ...

The U.S. Navy began experimenting with submarine-launched missiles, starting with a copy of the German V-1 buzz bomb ... class submarines using the Type XXI as a template. One of the officers ...