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 ...

The Germans quickly phased out all other submarine construction in favor of Type XXI and Type XXIII. Hoping to hide existing U-boats from increasingly devastating air patrols, the Germans ...

The submarine was one of Nazi Germany’s Type XXI U-boats, which could stay underwater for longer and travel further than their predecessors. Only two of 118 planned Type XXIs entered service ...

In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact. Numerous buildings, ...

U-Boat has launched a chronograph version of its “striped” Chimera. The time only watch was launched at Watches & Wonders ...

A family friend recently found evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

Hans Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest crew members of the UC-18 U-boat when it was torpedoed during World War One A Guernsey-made documentary about a U-boat which sank during World War One has ...

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 ...

The boat is buoyed by either two inflated tubes, as in the case of a pontoon boat, or a u-shaped inflated float tube. Belly boats only fit one angler at a time. They don’t include much in the ...

The Lago V 16U packs a lot of premium features into a smaller package that’s easy to run. Pontoon Boats now come in such a wide variety of styles and are built with an equally wide variety of ...

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Over the following eight years, they built 235 Whiskey class submarines using the Type XXI as a ... The U.S. Navy began operation of a fast-submarine test bed (a boat without combat capability ...