| 单词 | U-boat |
| 例句 | Despite his fraying nerves, Dasch remembered the captain of the U-boat telling him the sailors had a flare in case they had trouble getting back to the submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Kerling and his team had left earlier on a U-boat headed to Florida. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The sailors had a lifeline to the U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Somewhere out there, German U-boats glide above underwater canyons, and thirty-foot squid ferry their huge eyes through the cold dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z No sooner had Ernest’s wire been dispatched than horrifying news arrived: the Athenia had been sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, in the war’s first attack on British shipping. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Two days later, on Wednesday, June 17, a German U-boat surfaced off the coast of Florida in Ponte Vedra, near Jacksonville. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The U-boat was gone, and the Nazis had escaped. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z This thing we were riding wasn’t a monster or a wreck or a whale— “It’s a U-boat!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Within two hours of the U-boat landing, the Coast Guard alerted the FBI. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The blackout helped protect the U.S. ships that were out at sea, patrolling the coast for any lurking German U-boats. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They received so many false reports of U-boat sightings that they dismissed this one as "dubious." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It was after midnight when the gray U-boat surfaced off the coast of Amagansett, Long Island. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Hundreds of men from the U-boat service were on their way to the ship, preparing to man submarines once we reached Kiel on mainland Germany. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And as the U-boat inched closer to their landing spot, the rift continued to widen. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z U-boat officers and Germans of priority will of course take lodging in the ship's passenger cabins. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to unite his own team and have them view him as their esteemed leader, like the U-boat crew viewed their captain. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I was also sure that a search had been started for us, not fully understanding that a war was on and that all the ships and aircraft were needed to fight the U-boats. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t I once tried to convince Call that the Captain was a Nazi—a U-boat delivered spy? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of the plan was to give the bag to the sailors, so they could take it back on board the U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later, there was a small parting in the fog, and the silhouette of a U-boat appeared about 150 feet from shore. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They had learned the hard way that the U-boat, which was about the size of a school bus inside, traveled mostly above water across the Atlantic. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z If there was an enemy U-boat out there, I wanted to see it and join the people in shaking a fist at it I was not frightened, just terribly excited. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In Kappe's final instructions, he told the saboteurs to wear the uniform on the U-boat and when landing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Although Dasch and his men were allowed to move freely through the U-boat, it was difficult to walk around much because it was too jam-packed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Before the men prepared to head to shore, the captain of the U-boat said, "You bring the bodies back and we'll feed them to the fish when we get out to sea again." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And for a city that had been so poor before Hitler's rise to power, the sound of work, of hammers ringing along the docks, building ships and U-boats, is beautiful, too. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He told them to head back to the U-boat, forgetting to hand over the bag of German uniforms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Directly above, there was the hatch, and when it was opened there was access to a platform on the tower of the U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Herbie retold his story about traveling to Mexico, Japan, and Germany and returning to America on a U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The damage is light, mostly confined to the U-boat pens and refineries, but two errant bombs land in St. Pauli, a neighborhood known for its theaters and cafés and concert halls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I kept thinking about the U-boats off our coast and those lake tankers with barefooted Chinese sailors on board. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While surfaced, the U-boat could travel faster—at about the speed of a bicycle. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z George Dasch and his team boarded a freighter, crossed its deck, and walked carefully over a gangplank into German U-boat 202. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And those heavy, hard, sharp sounds could be the depth charges that my father said were used by the Navy to sink U-boats. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hotel-Dieu dining room is big and somber and full of people talking about U-boats off Gibraltar and the inequities of currency exchange and four-stroke marine diesel engines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Later that day, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announced to the public that German U-boats had landed eight highly skilled Nazi saboteurs on America's shores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z With the outbreak of war, her parents moved from there to London, then in 1943 to California, crossing the Atlantic under attack from German U-boats. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw Apparently their Christmas cheer is still discernible, like the bubbles in those bottles of champagne that have spent a century in the rusting hull of a sunken U-boat. Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z Variously superimposed upon the images are obstetric implements, Euclidian drawings, a lead model of a U-boat and the presence of Kiefer himself. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z At first he thinks it must be U-Tube, as in the U-boats that served Germany so well in wartime. Review: In ‘Look Who’s Back,’ Hitler Returns and He’s Amusing 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z We drank as though the ship were doomed, as though there were U-boats and mines and icebergs everywhere. T Magazine: The Love Boat 2012-11-14T22:00:06Z The last leg was on a ship that was sunk by a German U-boat on its very next crossing. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Still, U-boat commanders placed a premium on sinking as many tons of shipping as possible, since their supervisors kept detailed statistics and rewarded high performers, and sometimes these incentives trumped explicit orders. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z One that would buy a Captain on a merchant ship enough time to identify a marauding U-boat and sink it before it sunk him. Dazzle Ships and the art of confusion 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They are at war with each other, trying to salvage Nazi gold from a sunken U-boat. Jude Law submerged in new role 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z In the Atlantic, this left Allied convoys vulnerable, for harrowingly long periods, to attack by the advanced German submarines known as U-boats. ‘Greyhound’ Review: At Sea in World War II, With Tom Hanks in Command 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z He watched, astonished, as German U-boats sank American ships loaded with men, women and children, even as Wilson coolly refused to take action, instead maintaining studied neutrality. 'Colonel Roosevelt': Edmund Morris' superb account of Teddy Roosevelt's final, feisty years 2010-12-22T22:06:14Z German U-boat attacks and the turmoil of WWI disrupted the steady import of Marmite, an incredibly popular British yeast spread, into Australia. What the heck is Vegemite (and how do you eat it)? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z That because there was only one lav on early German U-boats, which after a few nights at sea on submariner rations quickly turned into the lav from Trainspotting, the officers took opium. Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army; The Lost Submarine of WWI: a Time Team Special – TV review 2013-07-08T06:00:08Z He manages to maintain his cool while at the same time projecting a simmering unease, even as a self-described “Wolf Pack” of U-boats bears down on his convoy. ‘Greyhound’ Review: At Sea in World War II, With Tom Hanks in Command 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In September, 1941, a U-boat fired at an American destroyer en route to Iceland; it missed the ship, but Roosevelt responded by issuing an order enabling the U.S. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z For all his success in Hollywood, however, “Das Boot,” a tense drama about sailors on a German U-boat during World War II, is the work for which Mr. Petersen will mostly likely be remembered. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Jackson himself devised the story of the imminent convergence of a German U-boat and an English ship which is on the way to save a group of comrades in a lifeboat. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z Code breaking helped the Allies plan D-Day, turned the tide on the Russian front and helped foil U-boat attacks in the Atlantic. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z “They were being built — to be honest — to be expendable, so there’d be enough of them that the U-boats couldn’t get them all,” Langley explained. In Mallows Bay, a ‘ghost fleet’ of wrecked ships is very much alive 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Ridley went to a school for expat kids, housed in a former U-boat barracks. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z In a deposition dated June 11th, he detailed the sinking and provided evidence that the perpetrator had been a U-boat: “There was no mistake about its being German. I live in a German neighborhood.” Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z He was one of the hundreds of internees who perished when the Arandora Star was torpedoed by a U-boat as surplus aliens were being exported to Canada. Radio preview: from FIP to Love, War And Trains 2013-04-27T05:00:14Z Early in the war it was used by British military intelligence to examine odd lots of prisoners — U-boat crews, unlucky German paratroopers and spies. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z "Certain animals and plants," Monbiot warns us, even "have characteristics that allow them to invade" – what, like Panzers and U-boats? – "and colonise many parts of the world." Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z "I walked to school past 100 U-boats every morning," he says. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z The exhibition opens with a room that includes works inspired by the 1915 sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, by German U-boats. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z New York wasn’t generally on the front lines — though German U-boats sank tankers in local waters — but with its port, manufacturing, ship building and strategic military centers, it made the front lines possible. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z A further consequence of Jutland was that with waning appetite for another major fleet action and its attendant risks, German U-boats went back to a largely commerce-raiding role. A most terrible year 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Unfortunately the “wolf pack” – German U-boats – picked us up. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Oceanographer Robert Ballard uncovers evidence of a possible "Nazi Attack on America" — specifically, a sunken German U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico — in this new episode of "Nova." TV This Week May 3 - 9: 'Penny Dreadful' on Showtime 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Likewise, the Nazi sub pens at La Rochelle, from which the U-boats patrolled the North Atlantic, were used merely as background, rather than as a place of historical interest. Bear Grylls: Born Survivor and Dive, Dive, Dive! 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z For example, it seemed unable to devise an effective response to the German U-boat campaign along the East Coast in 1942. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z They lived in a house so grand it had a library and Scott went to boarding school in Wilhelmshaven, where he used to watch U-boats in the North Sea: “I loved it.” Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Her ship made the passage alone, sailing in a zigzag pattern to avoid German U-boats. Lily Renée Phillips, Pioneering Comic Book Artist, Dies at 101 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z On the surface, "Black Sea" is a gritty thriller about a submarine crew on a dangerous mission to retrieve a German U-boat supposedly filled with gold bars that sank in the Black Sea. Sub thriller 'Black Sea' plumbs depths of identity in hunt for gold 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z More than 1,000 people died when a passenger liner was sunk by German U-boats but Michael's book, Listen to the Moon, is a tale of survival. 'A story of survival, trauma and recovery' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z A surprise appearance by subaquatic, recently deceased femmes fatales is another popular trope; the distaff dead, like U-boats, do not like to surface. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z “A skeptical admiral, one of Britain’s most highly decorated submarine commanders, arrived one day to role-play in the game as a U-boat commander,” Thomas Ricks writes, reviewing the book in a roundup of military titles. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Marlin fishing and scouring the high seas for German U-boats in the Caribbean. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z It was running without lights to avoid U-boats when it collided with another blacked-out ship. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Part of a massive convoy, the Benares was torpedoed in rough weather by a German U-boat, resulting in the death of over half of the more than 400 passengers aboard. 'Lifeboat' marks a poignant note in children's theater 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Disturbed by news reports of innocents killed at sea by U-boats, she was determined to help defeat the German attacks. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: A Brainy Beauty and World War II 2011-12-16T23:12:42Z But without U-boats, torpedoes, pirates or sharks, viewers of “Deadliest Catch” are left with bad weather, fatigue and meltdowns. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z The U-boat captain, Schwieger, was surprised that a single torpedo had sunk such a massive ship — and so quickly. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In July, the U.S. declared a wide zone of the Atlantic out of bounds to U-boats. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Three men in kayaks working in a pack, using stealth and cunning like corvettes hunting a U-boat. TV review: Human Planet 2011-01-27T23:05:00Z He also served in the military during World War II, captaining torpedo boats that sought to destroy German U-boats in French waters. TV Series 'The Avengers' Star Patrick Macnee Dies at 93 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z My grandfather was in the engine room of a ship around the Horn of Africa getting shot at by U-boats when he was in his late teens. Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Somehow, as the lifeboat rocked in the rough water and Mundy climbed up from it, the U-boat shifted and crushed his ankle; jagged bone protruded through the skin. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z We were alone for two days before being torpedoed by a U-boat in the early evening of 29 June 1941. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z During World War II, the Army, worried about encroaching German U-boats, built docks, seaplane hangars and barracks. On Long Island, skip the beach and take a hike The idea was that an escaped German U-boat officer put a grenade in the waistband of Captain Mainwaring's trousers, then marched behind him, holding a piece of string which was attached to the pin. Dad's Army creator on 'captain of comedy' Arthur Lowe: from the archive, 16 April 1982 2013-04-16T06:00:00Z An amazing floating city of ships stretching to the horizon, vulnerable to storms and U-boats, which eventually arrived at dawn in a burning city. Steven Appleby: A life in pictures 2012-10-05T23:04:02Z Deciphered Enigma messages revealed details of the movements of Germany’s U-boat fleets and provided crucial information for the North African desert campaign and the Allied invasion of France. The UK’s AI summit is taking place at Bletchley Park, the wartime home of codebreaking and computing 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr Betts said she agreed to help at Bletchley Park because she had recently lost her brother, when his ship was sunk by a German U-boat. WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker dies aged 99 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The Allies banned German possession of U-boats in view of their massive submarine campaign in the war, which had sunk not just Allied but neutral shipping. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z A World War One German U-boat has been identified by divers off the coast of Shetland. German WW1 U-boat found off the coast of Shetland 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z This helped to guide Allied ships around German U-boats in the North Atlantic. Titanic: Amateur radio heard SOS in Welsh town 2,000 miles away 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The German navy called its subs Unterseeboots or U-boats and focused on expanding this part of its fleet during the war. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The German Army didn't reach America, but within a year, U-boats were prowling the eastern seaboard, sinking tankers and freighters almost at will. Making excuses for dictators is nothing new: "Mr. Republican" and the Nazis 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z In the early 1920s, however, the German Navy secretly used shell companies to establish facilities in Sweden and the Netherlands to test new U-boat designs. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z The U-boat had been laying mines in the convoy channel between Orkney and Shetland before being forced to surface due to a technical fault. German WW1 U-boat found off the coast of Shetland 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z They boarded a troopship in Italy and, after dodging U-boats, arrived in New York in August. Long-lost operetta by Jewish WWII refugees gets first performance since 1945 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z U-boats were seldom submerged because the batteries on which they ran would not allow them to stay underwater for too long. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. She decoded Nazi messages and helped win World War II. Now she’s 101. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z At 17:22, the group sighted two German U-boats and went in for the attack. Remembrance Sunday: The WW2 pilot who won the Grand National 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z U-boats were used by Germany in both world wars, inflicting a heavy toll on merchant ships and military vessels. German WW1 U-boat found off the coast of Shetland 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z He had seen bombing raids, lines of tracer fire slicing into enemy bombers, and had even set foot on a captured German U-boat in 1945. Normandy veterans' welfare officer makes good a lifelong promise 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z She worked as a plotter in a map room, tracking the progress of the North Atlantic shipping convoys as they tried to evade U-boat attacks. Capturing war-time memories, before it is too late 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z By the end of the war, American forces had destroyed nearly 500 U-boats, thanks largely to breaking the Enigma code. She decoded Nazi messages and helped win World War II. Now she’s 101. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The first U-boat sank, and as William brought his Mosquito around to photograph the second, the submarine exploded, engulfing William's Mosquito in the blast. Remembrance Sunday: The WW2 pilot who won the Grand National 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z In the spring of 1942 Nazi Germany sent U-boats slinking across the Atlantic to prey on American shipping lanes. The Sky Needs Its ‘Silent Spring’ Moment 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Mesaba - like Titanic, built in Belfast - was torpedoed by German U-boat U-118 while making a convoy voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia. Titanic: Ship that sent iceberg warning found in Irish Sea 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In Belfast, Christian was tracking her fiance's convoy across the Atlantic, when it came under attack from German U-boats. Capturing war-time memories, before it is too late 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z At first, news of a destroyed U-boat was cause for celebration. She decoded Nazi messages and helped win World War II. Now she’s 101. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z During his first combat tour, Newham dropped mines into U-boat lanes and flew bombing raids over occupied Europe before he was sent to North Africa. Stories of UK’s disappearing World War II generation 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In February 1917, a German U-boat sank the American merchant ship, the Laconia, killing two passengers, and, in late March, quickly sunk four more American ships. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the ship carrying Joe’s brother to America is sunk by a German U-boat days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Joe enlists to seek revenge and later goes into hiding. The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z "The German U-boats were picking us off, sinking us," Neil says. Capturing war-time memories, before it is too late 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z At the British Cemetery, a white picket fence surrounded the graves of the only four soldiers recovered from the HMT Bedfordshire, which a torpedo fired by a German U-boat sank off the coast in 1942. Exploring Ocracoke, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z During the war, the toothy fish were known to accidentally set off the explosives intended for German U-boats and Japanese vessels. When Julia Child worked for a spy agency fighting sharks 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The U-boats acted in direct violation of international law, attacking without warning from beneath the water instead of surfacing and permitting the surrender of civilians or crew. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The converted liner was being used to transport internees - and some German prisoners of war - to Canada when it was sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the Irish coast. Scots-Italian story inspires best-selling author Adriana Trigiani 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z On “The Twilight Zone,” Mr. Persoff portrayed the skipper of a German U-boat that attacks a British freighter in World War II without warning. Nehemiah Persoff, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors, dies at 102 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The sale includes other notable nautical items including an original deck chair that was on the Lusitania, a passenger liner that was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915. Titanic survivors' items to go under the hammer 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z But it was not the only new weapon of World War I. German submarines, called U-boats, could sneak below ships and sink them with torpedoes, or underwater bombs. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 7, 1915, a German submarine, or U-boat, had sunk the British passenger ship Lusitania. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His wartime assignment was to fly transport planes in the Atlantic theater over waters haunted by prowling U-boats. Opinion | The ‘Candy Bomber’ showed that in wartime, kindness is a superpower 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Dating from 1942, they include scenes justifying the London Blitz, and others extolling the amount of Allied shipping the German U-boat campaign had succeeded in sinking. World War Two: Nazi guard's son finds propaganda in loft 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Part of the story involves the hunt for German U-boats during World War II, which is something Hemingway actually did aboard his own boat, the Pilar. EXPLAINER: Why are Florida waters so dangerous for migrants? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The band, he said, thought their name would conjure up "futuristic" images of "the spy plane" and "the U-boat". Bono: U2's name and songs make me cringe 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z For a ship that sank 80 years ago, the SS Virginia has traveled a fair distance: the oil tanker has moved more than 10 kilometers since it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. Historic Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He’s determined to harvest the Tears of the Moon before Lily does, even if it means steering a U-boat down the Amazon in hot pursuit. Review: Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are fun, but not enough to make ‘Jungle Cruise’ see-worthy 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The unit dodged German U-boats on their way to England and scrambled to escape a German rocket once they reached a Glasgow port. Black female WWII unit hoping to get congressional honor 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Assigned to protect supply convoys heading to Europe, he was aboard the SS City of New York when a German U-boat struck it with torpedoes off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. Minnesota Merchant Marine veteran receives medal for WWII heroism 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z In 1942, Boschwitz was allowed to leave the camp, but the ship taking him back to England was torpedoed by German U-boats. The Passenger: Lost German novel makes UK bestseller list 83 years on 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr Mortimer said they were expecting to find the remains of a German U-boat but were "thrilled to discover a ground-breaking British submarine instead". Dartmouth: WW1 submarine wreck given protection 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Convoys would travel through the “Black Pit,” where German-led U-boats would relentlessly attack them through the dead of night. The sonic abyss behind the harrowing WWII battle sequence in 'Greyhound' 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Turing’s work led to the decryption of German naval communications that helped allied convoys steer clear of U-boats and was pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic. Bank of England unveils new banknote celebrating WW2 code-breaker Turing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Eight days later, in an area 400 miles south of Iceland, the ship’s radar detected a German U-boat contact 4 miles away. S. Carolina man who found WWII medals tracks their home 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Her ship, full of war brides, zig-zagged across the Atlantic to evade U-boats. 'My grandfather's hidden wartime photo album' 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z In 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. Today in History 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Sonically, the mantra was to never let the vigor of the lurking danger from the U-boats diminish. The sonic abyss behind the harrowing WWII battle sequence in 'Greyhound' 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It became a garrison town in 1941 when the Roosevelt administration rushed to establish “Section Burrwood Naval Base” to thwart German submarines and U-boats from encroaching on the Mississippi River. Climate Helped Turn These 5 Places into Ghost Towns 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The wreck is near two other U-boats that also sank during the war. German U-boat that sank during World War II spotted in incredible underwater pictures 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The tanker, which is almost two football fields long, was carrying heating oil in 1943 when a German U-boat sunk it off the coast of Hatteras. Diver tries to find every Outer Banks near-shore shipwreck 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z So for 50 hours here, the ships need to fend for themselves against the Germans and their U-boats. Review: Hanks lends steady, sober hand to taut naval drama 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In the first two years of the war, German U-boats targeted Britain’s crucial oceanic supply chain, resulting in heavy losses, making Krause and Greyhound’s mission a perilous one. Review: Tom Hanks returns to World War II as a struggling Naval commander in 'Greyhound' 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z A French captain poses as a Nazi leader to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z HMS Premier managed to escape the attention of U-boats and the outward voyage passed off without incident. Medals for the last WW2 Arctic Convoys veterans 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z A Brooklyn bookkeeper falls off a pier, turns into a fish and helps the Navy track U-boats. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z When they finally acknowledged it, the newspapers issued conflicting public health messages and repeated unfounded rumours – including one that German U-boats beaching in the US had deliberately sown the flu. Closed borders and ‘black weddings’: what the 1918 flu teaches us about coronavirus 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z A U-boat Nazi and his comrades raid a Canadian outpost, hijack a seaplane and kill to reach the United States. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' and more 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Tingles on the back of the neck; the heart beats faster with every passing minute of this German U-boat saga. Column: '1917’ ranks among the best war movies ever. Here's where it lands on my top 10 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But by now 14 U-boats were lying in wait for the convoy off the Kola Inlet and it was to be the Royal Navy's last battle with enemy submarines. Medals for the last WW2 Arctic Convoys veterans 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Scientists in the U.K. recently spotted a mysterious shipwreck in the North Sea that may be a Swedish merchant ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II. 17th-century warship wrecks discovered off Swedish island 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The captain and crew of a World War II U-boat follow incredible orders under claustrophobic conditions. Movies on TV this week: 'The Wizard of Oz' on Thanksgiving and more 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The Swedish steamer S/S Kyros was sunk in the Baltic by a German U-boat in May 1917 on account of her “contraband” cargo. Shipwreck reveals its boozy treasure: Czar’s 100-year-old liquor salvaged from WW I wreck 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The sinking prompted speculation that the Empire Wold had fallen victim to a German U-boat, although the ship’s discovery led experts to believe that she foundered in heavy seas and 40-knot winds. 390-year-old shipwreck revealed using virtual reality 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z However, a U.S. destroyer that appeared in the distance may have prevented the U-boat crewmembers from turning the gun on the survivors. Doomed WWII warship reveals its secrets: How 'the lucky 13' survived the sinking of the USS Eagle 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A rich Italian and her German partner hire an American to fix up a U-boat for a heist on the Queen Mary. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “In collaboration with Historic Environment Scotland, scientists on board were able to identify the wreckage of a ship, thought to be the M/S Lagaholm, which was sunk by a Nazi U-boat in 1940.” Mysterious shipwreck spotted, may be merchant ship sunk by U-boat during WW II 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The captain, mates and crew of a Liberty Ship dodge U-boats, dive bombers and foul weather to reach port. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z CBC reports that the ships were all sunk by German U-boats in 1942. Canadian military recovers, detonates, unexploded munitions from WW II shipwrecks 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z “That’s something that we’re still trying to figure out, on some of the U-boats that were given the order to surrender, they were still fighting.” Doomed WWII warship reveals its secrets: How 'the lucky 13' survived the sinking of the USS Eagle 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Scouts too young to enlist in the military, he explained, would raise money for war bonds, farm, scan the waters for German U-boats and even act as first responders. Central Texas Boy Scout uses WWI project for Eagle effort 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z But arguably the greatest restraint lay under the chilly waters of the Atlantic, where German U-boat submarines preyed on the convoys of merchant vessels bearing critically needed supplies from North America. Heroes of a More Certain Time 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z It was hard to convince the UK to care about space-time and gravity as the U-boats were sinking food transports, and thousands of young lives were lost for meagre gains in Flanders, Belgium. The man who made Einstein world-famous 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Coast Guard says work is underway to extract oil from a British tanker sunk by a German U-boat off Long Island during World War II. Work underway on British tanker sunk by U-boat off NY in WW2 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The Naval Historical Center notes that Eagle was towing targets for Navy dive bombers when she was attacked by the U-boat. Doomed WWII warship reveals its secrets: How 'the lucky 13' survived the sinking of the USS Eagle 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The trip would entail braving the U-boats that menaced the Atlantic waters. Jean Vanier, who gave homes and dignity to the intellectually disabled, dies at 90 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Coast Guard is planning an environmental assessment to determine whether oil is leaking from a British tanker sunk by a German U-boat off Long Island during World War II. Coast Guard planning environmental assessment of WWII tanker 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Even with the U-boat threat, no country was better positioned than Britain to undertake an expedition to test Einstein's prediction. The man who made Einstein world-famous 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z German U-boats sank 148 petroleum tankers and countless other ships near the U.S. Work underway on British tanker sunk by U-boat off NY in WW2 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Lusitania was traveling from New York to Liverpool when she was sunk by U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. A century after Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat, an unusual item from the doomed liner emerges 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z They collected intelligence on the movements of German U-boats, on supply shipments sailing in and out of key ports, on which of the bridges into Paris were mined. Review | The young mother who took on the Nazis as head of France’s biggest spy network 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z A major contribution to winning the Battle of the Atlantic against the German U-boats was made by British codebreakers, notably Alan Turing. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: D.C. United, El Salvador and truth in fiction 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z This is the book that Darren Aronofsky has long dreamed of directing, a novel the digs deep into the deepest meanings of cinema … it’s also got disappearing Nazi U-boats in it. Top 10 books about Hollywood 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There are also numerous wartime stories in eastern Canada of German U-boats making headway up the St Lawrence river. Nazi blueprint for North American Holocaust acquired by Canada archive 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z New York City during World War II was an island of intrigue: It had spy rings, fascist sympathizers, U-boats lurking offshore. Review | World War II New York, from the Manhattan Project to Hitler’s nephew 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z German submarines, known as U-boats, targeted Allied shipping during World War One, sinking hundreds of vessels. German WW1 U-boat emerges off French coast 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Esso Baton Rouge, which sank off the Georgia coast in a deadly torpedo attack from a German U-boat. Museum dedicated to WWII homefront opens on Georgia coast 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z It is believed the German U-boat U-156 was responsible for the sinking. Mystery behind WWI shipwreck possibly solved during incredible exploration 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z On 20 November 2018 - nine days after Armistice Day - the first batch of U-boats crossed the North Sea to the British coast. Willow sub marks WW1 U-boat surrender 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z He ordered the Admiralty to stop roughing up U-boat prisoners, saw that the Zinoviev Letter smearing Labour was a forgery, and stopped the government penalising workers who came out in the general strike. Armistice Day: victory and beyond | Neal Ascherson 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Among the first Caribbean casualties to return home were those aboard troop ship SS Verdala, diverted via Halifax, Canada, while en route to England to avoid German U-boats. The Caribbean's overlooked WW1 soldiers 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z During World War II, the Allies used signals intelligence to break encrypted Nazi communications, allowing their forces to dodge enemy U-boats and facilitating the preparation and execution of the pivotal D-Day landings at Normandy. Quantum Computing Must Be A National Security Priority 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z We already know a big part of how this story ends, of course: The ship sinks, torpedoed by a German U-boat 11 miles off the coast of Ireland. Mystery, espionage and love affairs aboard the doomed Lusitania 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But some were left on the beach and the estuary eventually became known as "U-boat alley", said Mr Cain. Willow sub marks WW1 U-boat surrender 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z It is one of more than 100 World War One wrecks in Welsh waters and some are being surveyed for the "Forgotten U-boat war" project looking at associated shipwrecks around the Welsh coast. Sonar reveals WW1 U-boat wreck on seabed 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z At dusk, U-boat skipper Wolf Hans Hertwig spotted what he thought was a steamer heading north in the Bristol Channel, about 50 miles off the coast of Wales. Coast Guard to mark 100th anniversary of one of World War I’s largest U.S. naval combat losses 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The German crew, joined by other U-boats, began rescue operations. Today in History 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The same day, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles off the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1,400 or so people on board. Today in History 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z A German U-boat had torpedoed the Mirlo, a British tanker loaded with gasoline, seven miles from shore. 1 of greatest Coast Guard rescues to be celebrated 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The survey of the U-boat is part of a project examining World War One shipwrecks around the Welsh coast. Sonar reveals WW1 U-boat wreck on seabed 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Thousands more sailors and civilians perished as the war went on and U-boats ranged as far as the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard to mark 100th anniversary of one of World War I’s largest U.S. naval combat losses 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Wilkinson figured that, based on tests with models, if the U-boat gunner’s estimate of distance and direction was off by at least eight degrees, a torpedo would miss its target. A Hundred Years Ago, High Tech Was a Paint Job 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The U-boat sent hits to the tugboat Perth Amboy and its four barges and left an hour later. US town commemorates 100th anniversary of WWI enemy attack 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z The U-boat sent hits to the tugboat Perth Amboy and its four barges and left an hour later. US town commemorates 100th anniversary of WWI enemy attack 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Spanish media say the divers now want to find the downed Allied plane, believed to be near the U-boat wreck. Spain divers find Nazi U-boat wreckage 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Most of the game is spent exploring grungy locations, like a creaking giant U-boat or the ruins of New York City, while firing machine guns at a seemingly never-ending wave of Nazis. Wolfenstein II on the Switch is the best way to kill Nazis on the go 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z And dazzle painting was all about cleverness, because it was about fooling the U-boat gunners. A Hundred Years Ago, High Tech Was a Paint Job 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Reinhard Hardegen, 105, a leading German submarine commander of World War II who brought U-boat warfare to the doorstep of New York Harbor in the winter of 1942, died in Germany on June 9. This week’s passages 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z In the early weeks of January 1942, relying on an old World’s Fair guidebook to find his way, Reinhard Hardegen brought his German U-boat near the mouth of New York Harbor. Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The U-boat was returning from an operation off the coast of North America when it was detected by the Allies. Spain divers find Nazi U-boat wreckage 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z In 2016, an article in Smithsonian Magazine labeled merchant mariners “the unsung heroes of World War II,” saying they “kept the Allied troops armed and fed while at the mercy of German U-boats.” 2 Arkansas students to join US Merchant Marine Academy 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In World War I, before radar and before satellite navigation, the best technology to help ships elude German U-boats was paint. A Hundred Years Ago, High Tech Was a Paint Job 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z A German U-boat stalked the convoy, got the Tuscania in its sights and fired two torpedoes - one of which ripped a huge gash in its side. The Scottish island that buried America's dead 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z In December 1941, days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States and began its U-boat campaign, dubbed Operation Drumbeat. Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z World War I was the first major conflict in which military submarines had a significant impact, with early German U-boats attacking British merchant ships. Eternal Patrol: Final Resting Place of Lost World War I Submarine Discovered 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z To try to ward off German U-boats, the Imo bore signs reading “Belgium Relief” along its sides. Century After Halifax’s Great Explosion, City Marks Anniversary 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z More than 850 ships sailed from American and British ports up to 4,500 miles through treacherous Atlantic waters, teeming with U-boats. Remembering Operation Torch on its 75th anniversary 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The Kieler Nachrichten newspaper reports that four U-boats are being serviced in boatyards while two others are waiting for a berth. Germany’s entire U-boat fleet is out of action 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The waters off Cape Hatteras, in North Carolina, became known as “Torpedo Junction” for the U-boats that preyed there, and sailors’ bodies regularly washed up on shore. Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z What if it were hit by a German U-boat? How the search for a 'death ray' led to radar 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The Jones Act was passed in 1920 following World War I, after German U-boats sunk thousands of ships and continued to pose a threat to the U.S. What to Know About The Impact of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico Aid 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z At least 70 U-boats never returned to Belgium, and about 1,200 German sailors were confirmed dead, Mr. Termote said. Belgian ‘Indiana Jones’ Tries to Solve Mystery of a WWI Submarine 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z WWI U-boats were commonly staffed by a crew of 23 and, given the ship's preserved condition, officials believe it's likely the crew is still inside. See the WWI Submarine Discovered Off the Coast of Belgium 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z While most U-boat attacks occurred miles away from shore and far from major cities, Cmdr. Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The 503-foot-long cruiser was en route from Portsmouth, N.H., to New York when it was sunk, it is assumed, by a floating German mine or a torpedo fired from a U-boat. 99 Years Later, Navy Probing Warship Disaster Off Long Island 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The wrecks of a World War One U-boat and two merchant ships containing 15 cast iron cannons have been given protected status. U-boat and merchant shipwrecks given protected status - BBC News 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z That suggested that the remains of the commander and his crew — typically 22 in such a U-boat — would be buried within. Belgian ‘Indiana Jones’ Tries to Solve Mystery of a WWI Submarine 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z A total of 18 U-boats patrolled the small port in Western Flanders from 1915 to 1918, and 13 were reportedly destroyed. See the WWI Submarine Discovered Off the Coast of Belgium 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z He later became chief of U-boat training and was transferred to command of an infantry unit near the close of the war. Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In teams of four, the men were loaded onto a pair of U-boats, one destined for Jacksonville, Fla., and the other for a beach near the tip of Long Island. Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial — on federal land. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z "The listing of the U-boat wreck off Whitby is also particularly poignant, as we continue to mark the centenary of World War One and remember the sacrifices of those who fought 100 years ago." U-boat and merchant shipwrecks given protected status - BBC News 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The murderous power of U-boats entered the global consciousness on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the ocean liner Lusitania off the Irish coast, killing 1,198 people — including more than 100 Americans. Belgian ‘Indiana Jones’ Tries to Solve Mystery of a WWI Submarine 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The submarine was a UB-II type of U-boat, a formidable weapon of war in their heyday. See the WWI Submarine Discovered Off the Coast of Belgium 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z U-boats, supplemented by mines, aircraft and surface ships, succeeded in sinking three million tons of Allied shipping between the fall of France in June 1940 and the end of that year. Did the Nazis locate a secret U-boat base in Spain? - BBC News 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z He took typing in high school, making him perfect for the role of direction finder - the man who, after learning Morse code during training , eavesdropped on U-boat messages in the North and South Atlantic. WWII veteran recounts war experiences 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z One hundred years ago, a group of 11 senators blocked a bill that would have allowed U.S. merchant ships to arm themselves against German U-boats as World War I raged in Europe. The Daily 202: The legislative filibuster will be at risk now that the Senate has gone nuclear 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Brisk, which provided protection from German U-boats and mines. The Legend of the S.S. Mendi 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z An exchange about the use of statistics to fight German U-boats captures his attitude. Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The "U-boat peril", as Winston Churchill described German submarine power, was a huge threat to Britain's survival during the early stages of World War Two. Did the Nazis locate a secret U-boat base in Spain? - BBC News 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z She was torpedoed in the North Atlantic by several German U-boats on March 16, 1943, and was lost the next day, along with 44 of her 74-man crew - many of them Savannahians. World War II Liberty ship model installed in Savannah 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The Liberty ship carrying the mostly Jewish refugees left Naples as part of a convoy across the Atlantic, shadowed by Nazi airplanes and U-boats. Ruth Gruber Used Her Camera and Typewriter to Fight for Refugees 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z A Nov. 13, 1942, entry notes an “anti U-boat meeting,” a reference to the menace of German submarines. Winston and Washington: Remembering Churchill’s romance with wartime D.C. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The wreck of a German U-boat that sank almost 100 years ago has been discovered by engineers laying subsea power cables. Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Yet 100 years ago, 19 fishing boats were sunk without the loss of a single life, due to the compassionate actions of a German U-boat crew. WWI: The 'gentlemanly massacre' of Scarborough's fishing fleet - BBC News 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Operating from within the thick plastic bubble of two-person submersibles, they studied the wrecks of the U-boat and its victim, the Nicaraguan freighter Bluefields, which had a huge torpedo hole in its side. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The trawler swept mines laid by German U-boats off the Dorset coast until 10 of its 13 crew members died when it struck a mine in April 1917. HMT Arfon: Sunken WWI mine trawler protected - BBC News 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z At the time, U-boats were considered some of the most advanced naval technology on Earth. North Naples veteran seized a German U-boat offshore in WWII 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z The historian said tales of sea monsters and haunted U-boats came about due to secrecy surrounding exactly what happened during the first U-boat war which meant that period was "ripe for conspiracies". Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z By the end of the second world war, the Allies had become so good at finding U-boats that German crews taking to the sea had a life expectancy of about a week. Seek, but shall ye find? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “Under normal circumstances, that’s the end of the operation,” said retired National Archives expert and U-boat historian Timothy Mulligan. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Fifteen months after he tried to ram the U-boat, Fryatt's ship was cornered by five gunboats and he was imprisoned. Charles Fryatt: The man executed for ramming a U-Boat - BBC News 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The U-boat toured around various ports as a sort of floating publicity stunt for the war bond effort. Cheyenne man sole surviving WWII sub vet in Wyoming 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He added: "I don't think it was a sea monster. I like the idea of Nessie doing her bit for the war effort but in reality the real sea monster was the U-boat." Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The arms race between surface vessels and submarines has been going on for almost exactly a century—since Germany’s demonstration to its enemies in the first world war of the threat from its U-boats. Seek, but shall ye find? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It was a potential feast for a U-boat. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But why would a merchant ship's commander ever try ramming a U-boat? Charles Fryatt: The man executed for ramming a U-Boat - BBC News 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Toward the war’s end, one of these U-boats, U-858, was sent to wreak havoc along the east coast of the United States. Cheyenne man sole surviving WWII sub vet in Wyoming 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The entire crew of the U-boat is reported to have abandoned ship due to the "monster attack" and once aboard the British HMS Coreopsis, their commander, Captain Krech described their encounter. Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer - BBC News 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The memorial sits on a pier, and features an abstracted, rounded bronze ramp – a sinking ship, torpedoed by a U-boat – from which one sailor calls for help and a second reaches down into the water. Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The U-boat headed down, and black oil spread over the water. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It was his third such encounter with a U-boat that month. Charles Fryatt: The man executed for ramming a U-Boat - BBC News 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The U.S. military was unprepared for the U-boat onslaught, and for much of 1942 it lacked the ships, planes and, sadly, the inclination to protect the cargo ships. World War II Shows Why We Need the Merchant Marine 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The 236-mile-long pipeline was built to provide for the safe transport of crude oil to Quebec at a time when German U-boats that could sink oil tankers were patrolling the western Atlantic. APNewsBreak: 75-year-old oil pipeline shuts down 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Capt. Brown was on board the escort carrier Audacity when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay in 1941. Eric Brown, unflappable British test pilot who set world records, dies at 97 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z This week, the U-boat project had to be suspended because of bad weather, said David W. Alberg, supervisor of the Monitor sanctuary. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “And most of those are tankers and freighters that were sunk by U-boats,” he said. Agency seeks sanctuary for WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Again and again merchant mariners were sent on hazardous voyages with no protection, in the hope they would be lucky enough not to encounter a U-boat. World War II Shows Why We Need the Merchant Marine 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Gene spent his war braving storms and submarines in the North Atlantic, guarding American convoys from German U-boats. Former New Jersey mayor wants brother’s remains returned 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z “We lived that battle - we fought that battle - and every branch of the service here was involved in striving to find a way to defeat the German U-boats.” Monitor sanctuary expansion aimed at WWII shipwrecks 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But after firing the torpedoes, the U-boat inexplicably bobbed to the surface in the middle of the convoy. After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z After Germany declared war on the United States in December 1941, the German navy dispatched waves of its deadly submarines — U-boats — to the U.S. Agency seeks sanctuary for WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When America formally entered the war, German U-boats invaded U.S. waters to cut off the supply line at its source. World War II Shows Why We Need the Merchant Marine 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Most of these were already known about, but the U-boat was "entirely unexpected", developers said. Lost WW1 German U-boat wreck found off Norfolk coast - BBC News 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z At the time, German U-boats were sinking so many ships bearing supplies from America to Britain that Churchill called it “the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war.” Your Thursday Briefing: Jakarta, Oscars, Alan Rickman 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z King, of the family that founded the Taunton Municipal Airport, spotted while on flight patrol near Block Island an oil slick from a U-boat, a German submarine. Massachusetts aviator an unsung hero in World War II 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Somewhere off North Carolina’s Outer Banks lies the wreck of a passenger ship, City of New York, sunk by a German U-boat on March 29, 1942. Agency seeks sanctuary for WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Three thousand merchant ships were lost, along with 175 warships and 783 U-boats, he said. Lost at sea during WWII, weathermen to get their Purple Hearts at last 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was a nervous convoy, through an Atlantic Ocean fairly swimming with German U-boats. WWII veteran brothers look back on century of life 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z He contacted the Admiralty with the suggestion that sea lions might detect the underwater sound of a U-boat, swim to the enemy vessel and signal its location. U-boat hunting sea lions feature in BBC WW1 e-book - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Three other ships did not, having been torpedoed by German U-boats, with a loss of 131 lives. The incredible story of a Chesapeake steamship that helped create Israel 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Of the 50 Enigma machines on display in museums around the world, only seven are M4s, taken from captured U-boats, the auction house said. Rare Nazi Enigma machine sold at auction for world record $365,000 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The U-boat first spotted the Muskeget’s masts emerging from a rain squall in the distance, and despite a heavy ocean swell it moved in to attack. Lost at sea during WWII, weathermen to get their Purple Hearts at last 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z But the U-boat menace was very real and one of the strongest weapons in the arsenal of the German and Austrian navies. Electronics Fight Submarines, 1915 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z In 1916, German U-boats were a growing menace to the British war effort. U-boat hunting sea lions feature in BBC WW1 e-book - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “His solution,” Mort writes, “was characteristic: he would attack the U-boat — suddenly and unexpectedly — and then run for it.” 5 Times Ernest Hemingway Cheated Death 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The model was made rarer still by the sinking of 70% of German U-boats in the later stages of World War II, in part due to the breaking of the Enigma code, Bonhams said. Rare Nazi Enigma machine sold at auction for world record $365,000 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z A new novel, “Ghost Fleet,” warns Americans about advances in cyberwarfare that could leave the U.S. as unprepared as Britain was against the U-boats. Portents of World Cyberwar 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z He accompanied the first troops to England, became friendly with Walter Cronkite while they both reported the battle of Casablanca off of Morocco’s coast and covered U-boat action off of Brazil’s shoreline. War correspondent’s family donates collection to museum 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1917 the experiment was abandoned but, ever the self publicist, its failure did not prevent Mr Woodward later promoting his act as featuring "The Actual Admiralty U-boat Hunting Sea-Lions". U-boat hunting sea lions feature in BBC WW1 e-book - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z During World War II, he outfitted Pilar with grenades and a machine gun to hunt German U-boats when he wasn’t hunting marlin. For these Hemingways, a crossing of the Florida Straits conjures Old Cuba 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In another disaster three years later, Cunard's Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, causing the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew. Three Queens: How Cunard transformed travel - BBC News 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z In 1941, a German U-boat sank the American merchant steamship SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship's passengers and crew were allowed to board lifeboats. Briefing: As Congress Scrambles, McConnell Reaches for the Asprin 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In the battle for the North Atlantic during World War II, Germany’s U-boats wreaked havoc on supply ships headed for Britain. OracleVoice: Data Analytics In The Virtual Battlefield 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The German U-boat is acting as the unseen enemy below the waves. Nato's 'Dynamic Mongoose': Hunting for submarines - BBC News 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z On 7 May 1915, the Lusitania ocean liner, travelling from New York to Liverpool, was hit by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. Remembering the Lusitania: One passenger's remarkable story of survival - BBC News 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z It was spotted by a German U-boat in the South Atlantic and sank after being hit in quick succession by two torpedoes. Silver coins worth $50 million recovered from WW2 wreck at record depth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In a cruel twist of fate, one of the two men, Third Officer James Allister Whyte, died shortly after when the ship taking him home was torpedoed by a U-boat. Record dive rescues $50m wartime silver from ocean floor 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. WW1 sinking of Lusitania recalled 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z A German U-boat torpedoed a Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Bayano which sank with the loss of nearly 200 British lives. Centenary of wartime ship disaster 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The British ocean liner was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Latest News: Ferguson Courts, Senators Rebuked, N.F.L. Salary Cap 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z As it turns out, unlike the remarkably similar activities of the Kriegsmarine U-boats in the Atlantic and the US Navy submarines in the Pacific, “dark money” is more of a conservative thing . Report On IRS Targeting Of Conservatives - No Christmas Pony For Darrell Issa 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Shortly after that second torpedo struck 73 years ago, and the last remnants of the City of Cairo disappeared beneath the waves, the U-boat surfaced and approached the survivors' lifeboats. Record dive rescues $50m wartime silver from ocean floor 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z A dozen miles off Old Head of Kinsale, a German U-boat lay waiting. Top 10 Anniversaries in 2015 Over the course of the war, patrol volunteers dropped more than 80 bombs on U-boats, two of which were believed to have sunk as a result. World War II-era Civil Air Patrol volunteers honored on Capitol Hill 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The Blakely sank four and was part of the capture of one - that U-boat remains on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Wildlife walks: Ohio artist’s work is in his woods 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z The SS Gairsoppa on the other hand, a steam ship sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast in 1941, went down with over 110 tonnes of silver on board. Finding long lost treasures of the deep 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The vessel bearing them there was spotted by a U-boat on 6 November 1942, after it had rounded the horn of Africa, and was torpedoed. Record dive rescues $50m wartime silver from ocean floor 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The duo were captured on a dinghy in the Channel by Nazis aboard a U-boat. WW2 soldier spared by a Nazi general 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z "A lot is said about how close Germany's U-boats came to strangling Britain in 1917, but if you turn it around, by early 1915 the seas were empty of German merchant ships," explains Andrew Chong. The day the entire German fleet surrendered 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Some men are seen sleeping on the deck while others look overboard for the threat of German U-boats. Unseen WW1 photos uncovered 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Only Brown and a fellow pilot survived when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 21 December 1941. The man who seemed not to notice danger 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z U-boats would then either be sunk or circumnavigated, saving thousands of lives. The woman who cracked Enigma code 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z It was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 to hunt U-boats and sweep for mines. Lost trawler could be heading home 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z An estimated 90 vessels — including four U-boats — were sunk off North Carolina between January and July 1942. Sunken World War II German U-boat and freighter found off coast of Cape Hatteras The Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German U-boat, in 1939. Royal Oak anniversary remembered 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z During World War II, underwater nets were erected to protect Portsmouth’s harbor from German U-boats. In New Hampshire, war weariness hardens into resolve for strikes in Iraq and Syria William Austin, known as Bill, was just 19 when he was on board when HMS Pathfinder was struck by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. Torpedo attack victims remembered 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z "Some 3,000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and they fought that grim battle against U-boats and mines," he said. Lost trawler could be heading home 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Hoyt said researchers knew the location of three of the U-boats sunk off North Carolina but were not sure of U-576’s location. Sunken World War II German U-boat and freighter found off coast of Cape Hatteras It was a shot which the U-boat U-57 would not miss. 'I became a good swimmer that night' 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The idea originated in the First World War, when the Allies faced the new underwater threat of German U-boats silently sinking ships with torpedoes. Did Modern Art Help Win World War I? See The Greatest Paintings Ever To Rule The Seas In This New York Museum Exhibit 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The Little Britain they created was far from the trenches of Flanders or the gunsights of a U-boat on the high seas. The prisoners who grew 33,000 lettuces 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Stealthy U-boats posed more of a risk than conventional warships. Fort Hunt: From defending the capital to helping American POWs escape the Nazis Knowing the U-boat must be nearby, they focused their search for the sub earlier this year around the presumed Bluefields wreck. Sunken World War II German U-boat and freighter found off coast of Cape Hatteras The Scientific American issues of 1916 and 1917 show that U-boat warfare created a palpable fear in this country; it was certainly one reason the U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Centennial of a Calamity 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The tonnage that was sunk by the German U-boats over that nine months was significant. 'We're At Greater Risk': Q. & A. with General Keith Alexander 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The SS Gairsoppa sailed for Britain with its shipment of silver bullion but it broke free from a protection convoy during a heavy storm and was spotted and attacked by the German U-boat. Silver sunk by Nazis made into coins 2014-04-04T12:29:10Z Hear how schoolboy Ernie Norwood made friends with soldiers at Spurn Point and how an artist's brainwave led to camouflage being developed to confuse German U-boats. WW1 defences being destroyed by sea 2014-02-28T06:07:57Z Allied ships were headed up and down the East Coast, and U-boats preyed on them, Hoyt said. Sunken World War II German U-boat and freighter found off coast of Cape Hatteras The megasub was remarkable for its size alone: 400 feet, nearly twice as long as a standard German U-boat of the time. Finding Japan’s Aircraft-Carrier Sub 2013-12-02T21:49:21Z X24 sank a floating dock used to repair U-boats in Bergen, Norway. X men: War-time's mini sub crews 2013-09-21T23:03:01Z Reinforced concrete U-boat and torpedo boat pens were shattered, crippling a threat to Allied shipping. Dambusters: Triumph and tragedy 2013-08-28T06:50:44Z There were huge U-boat pens the size of three football pitches at Brest and the French ports. Britain's 'explosive' beauty spots 2013-06-30T23:25:38Z Hoyt said that because of the lost weight of the four torpedoes and the broken ballast system, the U-boat couldn’t stay submerged and popped to the surface in the middle of the convoy. Sunken World War II German U-boat and freighter found off coast of Cape Hatteras Working with the Navy’s own planners, Booz consultants developed a special sensor system that could track the U-boats’ brief-burst radio communications and helped design an attack strategy around it. Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization 2013-06-20T09:50:23Z When Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Liverpool in 1941, he was concerned about tackling the growing menace of German U-boats. VIDEO: Churchill's Liverpool WWII hotline 2013-05-25T22:51:31Z More than 66,000 Allied merchant seamen, sailors and airmen lost their lives, with 175 Allied warships and 5,000 merchant ships destroyed by German U-boats. War U-boat fight honoured by plaque 2013-05-12T13:43:33Z Winston Churchill once said: "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." 70 years on: Battle of the Atlantic 2013-05-08T02:10:08Z There were U-boats strung about the area but the main thing was the cold. Arctic convoy hero denied medal 2013-01-14T03:41:28Z The admirals worried in particular about the Kriegsmarine’s fleet of U-boats, which were preying on Allied shipping and proving impossible to find, much less sink. Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization 2013-06-20T09:50:23Z During World War Two, HMS Caroline was back in action, acting as a key base for operations to protect the North Atlantic convoys from U-boat attacks. HMS Caroline is given £1m grant 2012-12-18T16:18:24Z But during World War I, those exports were badly interrupted by German U-boats attacking merchant ships. The slow spread of Vegemite 2012-10-17T23:05:06Z Indeed, it was a Kriegsmarine Enigma model, developed by the Navy to help sailors find the real thing when they boarded enemy U-boats, some prowling right off Coney Island. City Room: In a Visit to an Exhibit, Recalling a Date With History in 1941 2012-10-05T18:04:46Z Submarine stowaway On a U-boat, there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. A grown-up viewing of Indiana Jones 2012-10-04T22:29:10Z His family survived refugee camps and a perilous Atlantic crossing through a gantlet of German U-boats. Raymond B. Harding, Ex-Liberal Party Leader, Dies at 77 2012-08-09T16:58:54Z The harshest sentence - four years - went to two junior U-boat officers for torpedoing the hospital ship, H.M.H.S. At War Blog: In Troop Travel Limbo, Mesmerized by the Writing on the Walls 2012-07-20T18:00:44Z The vessel was holed during the U-boat attack in February 1941 and sank 300 miles south-west of the Galway coast as it sailed for India. Atlantic yields up long-lost treasure 2012-07-19T11:08:17Z Some historians estimate that Bletchley Park's massive codebreaking operation, especially the breaking of U-boat Enigma, shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z German U-boats didn’t only strike terror throughout Europe, but U.S. shores were also well within the German submarine vessels’ attack range. How Alan Turing Helped Win WWII and was Thanked with Criminal Prosecution for Being Gay 2012-05-27T07:06:41Z He was at Barcelona when the U-boats were busy. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z From this point of view alone the Polish scheme is to be condemned, as is also any infringement of Belgian rights, or the execution of British citizens—to say nothing of the insane U-boat plan. My Mission to London 1912-1914 2012-04-17T02:00:14.497Z The U-boat captain must have taken his eye off the boat, or sliced or committed some technical blunder or other, for he missed an easy shot. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Harry Hinsley, a member of the small, tight-knit team that battled against Naval Enigma, and who later became the official historian of British intelligence, underlined the significance of the U-boat defeat. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z On the trip their ship is sunk by a U-boat and their adventures are realistic descriptions of the tragedies of the sea. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z Because the ship was torpedoed by one of your ever-accursed U-boats. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z With the great improvements in the type, it is probable that in many conditions the U-boat will be a factor in battles of fleets, and such contingencies should be safeguarded in advance. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Yet, terribly destructive as these U-boats were, the number which were operating simultaneously in this and in other fields was never very large. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Turing personally broke the form of Enigma that was used by the U-boats preying on the North Atlantic merchant convoys. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z The World War was not long over and the ship had a number of smoke-bombs which were supposed to be used in foiling U-boats. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z Some one saw her, wired the information up the coast here and the man we've got to nab tipped the U-boat off. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z U-boats were reported early in the action, but there is no hint that they took any real part in the battle. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Besides these two types, the U-boats and the UB's and UC's, the Germans had another type of submarine, the great ocean cruisers. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," Churchill said later. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z Then, a highly decorated German U-boat captain, Ernst Mengersen, moved in for the attack. Divers Set Sights on Sunken WWII Ship Laden With Silver 2011-09-26T00:50:18Z It meant that the U-boat would be watching for the signal the following night. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z Attacked by a U-boat, which fired two shots, the master got out the boats, left the ship, and pulled toward the enemy vessel. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Every newspaper, every magazine, every public man, and every gentleman at his club had a favourite scheme for defeating the U-boat campaign. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Just in time, Turing and his group succeeded in cracking the U-boats' communications to their controllers in Europe. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z Thus began a hunt for saboteurs who had been sent to the United States on U-boats by the German military spy service in a plot to blow up rail facilities and war-industry plants. John Cullen, Coast Guardsman Who Detected Spies, Dies at 90 2011-09-03T03:24:42Z The point that's worrying us is that the U-boats must be getting their information from some one over here. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The officer spoke very good English, being prompted in German by the Captain of the U-boat. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z The first intimation which was given the merchantman that a U-boat was in his neighbourhood was the explosion of the torpedo in his hull. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z With the U-boats revealing their positions, the convoys could dodge them in the vast Atlantic waste. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z Conceit is a thin bubble in the wind, it is an empty froth and breath, yet, hammered into ship-plates, it defies the U-boat. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z But, arguing that it had been obtained, the way in which it had been passed on to the U-boat also presented a puzzle. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z A German U-boat while laying mines on the British coast struck one of them and was blown in two. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z A little diagramming will prove that the U-boat must be almost directly in line of its hoped-for victim if it is to score a hit. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Turing's work on Tunny was the third of the three strokes of genius that he contributed to the attack on Germany's codes, along with designing the bombe and unravelling U-boat Enigma. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z Either Krueger, the assistant and traitorous radio operator, had managed to communicate with the commander of the German U-boat 714, or further effort to this end was considered useless now. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Of course, it was possible that it might be located on some unfrequented part of the coast—but then how could the operator obtain the information which he transmitted to the U-boat? On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z An Example of U-Boat Brutality One day in the first week of March, 1918, a small Belgian fishing smack was sighted by a German U-boat and was fired upon without the slightest warning. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z These U-boats did not have bases off the Irish and Spanish coasts, as most people still believe. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z If U-boat Enigma had not been broken, and the war had continued for another two to three years, a further 14 to 21 million people might have been killed. Turing saved 'millions of lives' 2012-06-19T01:34:08Z They made the assistant wireless operator, Krueger, admit that within the hour he had caught a message from the U-boat and had sent one in reply. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Maybe, he thought, drowsily, as he turned off the light—maybe the German on the U-boat was only boasting, after all—or, maybe.... On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z Being armed, the vessel opened fire, but the U-boat was not within range, and a shot from the submarine struck the ship. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z No, there was not the slightest mystery concerning the bases of the U-boats. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z On a voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, with Captain Hassan in command, she was, on July 31, 1917, attacked and sunk by a German U-boat. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z German sailors from destroyed U-boats and Luftwaffe aircrew also found themselves interned. Strange world 2011-06-28T02:50:14Z He had found that there was a rumor to the effect that two U-boats were waiting off the Capes for the transport, which, of course, would have the benefit of the usual convoy. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z He was equally tactful, but we saw that he was exceedingly nervous about the outcome of the U-boat aggression. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z But there was another and shorter route to this area available to the U-boats. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Captain Hassan was taken aboard the U-boat, and no further knowledge of his fate has been received. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z He figures that his U-boats will do the trick long before we get ready to fight. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z And as though, too, he had a power of divination about what the German U-boat commanders would do, beyond the knowledge possessed by the officers of the steamship. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z And the use of the U-boat meant war for us! Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Not a single German U-boat could therefore succeed in getting out of the North Sea. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z As soon as we had pulled away from the ship I saw the U-boat, which promptly made toward our own boats and hailed us in English, commanding us to come alongside her. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z "I've got the love of blue water in my veins I guess, and I'm aching to get a chance to pot a German U-boat." Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The effort succeeded, and by 1918 the Allies were using acoustic echoes to correctly pinpoint the location of German U-boats. How Ultrasound Changed the Human Sex Ratio 2011-06-11T13:45:00.243Z Even Count Szchenyi, always for peace, and with us in sympathy, declared that 'the U-boat war would go on, not to crush England, but as part of the Germanic League to enforce Peace.' Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z In the above I have been describing the operations of the U-boats in the great area to the west and south of Ireland. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The Arandora Star was a converted liner being used to transport internees and prisoners of war to Canada when it was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat. Memorial garden for liner victims 2011-05-15T23:13:49Z "A U-boat would certainly make a ten-strike if it sent a torpedo into this craft," remarked Frank, as, after breakfast, the three friends secured a point of vantage on the upper deck. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The U-boat war, in short, had failed; and the Germans knew it had failed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The U-boat war was only a means of forcing peace. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z He described the work of destroyers and other anti-submarine craft, but he showed no confidence that they would be able to control the depredations of the U-boats. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Gairsoppa, a cargo steamer sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast. Odyssey Hunts Nazi-Torpedoed Ship’s $260 Million of Silver 2011-03-29T15:36:49Z Minutes passed and still the U-boat lay like a sullen monster, trapped but not subdued. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Mr Dadds that because of the depth of the U-boat, the party knew it was "quite a big dive". U-boat death diver 'sadly missed' 2011-03-28T20:13:53Z Heaven forbid!' said Count Szchenyi, 'but we tolerate the U-boat war only as an instrument for obliging England to make peace. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The German U-boats were making a particularly successful drive at tankers with the result that England had the utmost difficulty in supplying her fleet with this kind of fuel. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z In these days of deep-sea warfare we should have practise to be ready to swim after a U-boat, if necessary,” called the doctor, seeing the hamper once more left in order and safety. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z The Germans may call off their U-boat campaign rather than bring the United States into the war. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Fell into the hands of a U-boat captain. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Peace,' he said, 'we must have peace or all the world will be in anarchy,' I do not think he 'accepted' the U-boat war, except diplomatically. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z These submarines differed from the U-boats in that they were smaller, displacing about 350 and 400 tons, and in that they also carried mines, which they were constantly laying. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z They are full of despair, and their officers say that Germany is only holding out in the hope of a U-boat victory. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z If a U-boat attacked us she'd be the more likely of the two to get sunk. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I tell you the German U-boat captains are as good men as ever the hag War breeds. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Such delay, to my knowledge, was an evil, since the continued U-boat horror made a war imminent. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z At this time certain of the merchant captains manifested an incurable obstinacy; they affected to regard the U-boats with contempt, and insisted rather on taking chances instead of playing the game. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z It must have been a strafed U-boat, since I know for a dead cert that none of our submarines are taking part in the present operations. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z You know, a U-boat did cross the ocean a year or so ago and sank five ships right off Nantucket. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Newcomb remembered crying out a warning, "She's coming back!" as the swift seconds brought the swifter U-boat and the sound of renewed firing nearer. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z This would mean more appalling delays, and, with the U-boat menace increasing, failure. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The man who first had the idea well understood the peculiar mentality of the U-boat commanders. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The U-boat rattled herself to bits, so to speak, and had to be abandoned. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z At that time we were neutral and after the U-boat once slipped past the British fleet there was nothing to stop it before it got to the American coast. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The German U-boat commander was branded a war criminal and, more importantly, the loss of American lives helped persuade the United States to eventually enter the war on the side of the Allies. Farewell to author of Babe 2011-02-01T08:15:40Z He feels, evidently, that, in spite of his influence with the Chancellor, you will begin your U-boat outrages, and then we must be at war! Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The U-boat commanders soon learned to look for these betraying seams before coming to the surface. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Where there's water for that strafed U-boat there's enough for us.... Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The captain of the U-boat might have been as surprised as we were when he came up to breathe and found himself so close to us. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I have received official information that my application for U-boats has been received. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Remaining neutral, Norwegian business men kept up such trade with the belligerents as the U-boat on one side and the embargo on the other permitted. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Three days afterward a badly injured U-boat put in at Cartagena, Spain, and was interned for the rest of the war. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The skipper's just spoken through: we're on the track of a strafed U-boat. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Do you remember what that U-boat did that sank the Belgian Prince? Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I have, of course, never been to sea for any length of time in a U-boat, and it is all very novel. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z During World War II, a spy was arrested for sending coded radio messages from a waterfront location on Staten Island out to waiting U-boats about departing ship convoys. Answers About World War II in New York, Part III 2010-10-04T20:28:00Z The Lydonia, a yacht of 500 tons, in conjunction with the British ship Basilisk, sank another U-boat in the western Mediterranean. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The lieutenant-commander could still discern the patch of phosphorescence that encircled the partly submerged U-boat. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The U-boat sailed along the surface for a few hours and then slowly sank leaving their captives to drown. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I must see whether I can't invent a set of U-boat exercises! The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z There were German saboteurs landed on the beach in Hampton Bays by a U-boat and captured by the local Coast Guard. Answers About World War II in New York 2010-09-29T16:11:00Z Indeed, a U-boat caught in such a predicament has only one chance of escaping: that is represented by the number of seconds which it takes to get under the water. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z From the mess-deck the "watch below," already roused by the impact of the destroyer with the ill-starred U-boat, came tumbling out, forming up in orderly silence to await further commands. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z He'll find something that will finish the U-boats in jig time. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z He is inordinately fond of this statement, and the youngsters continually say: "What made you take to U-boat work, Schmitt?" and the invariable reply is as above. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Also, Navy personnel armed with binoculars were used as “beach walkers” to patrol miles of beaches in the area for possible U-boats. Answers About World War II in New York 2010-09-29T16:11:00Z All that the Germans knew, in these early days, was that certain U-boats had sailed from Germany and had not returned. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z We had to make a forced descent, got collared by a strafed U-boat just as we had effected repairs. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z "Because our U-boats would have stopped you," was the reply. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I am wrong, there were two other things: a U-boat, representing the might of Germany, and a whaler with perhaps twenty men in it, representing the plight of England! The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z U-boats ventured so close to Manhattan that German sailors could see the skyline’s glow. New York at War: Then and Now 2010-05-31T00:00:00Z At any moment, of course, the struggling U-boat might come to the surface, and it was necessary to have forces near by to fight or to accept surrender. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Corals have found purchase on dozens of ships sunk in the gulf in 1942 when Nazi U-boats patrolled the shipping lanes. Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf 2010-05-16T04:00:00Z The big U-boat jogged along at half speed, beating up and down in erratic courses—keeping always to a water area of perhaps ten miles square. H.M.S. —— The seamen are numbered in their tens of thousands, the U-boats in their tens. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Submarine chasers were regarded as a necessity, but the navy evinced little enthusiasm for them as a weapon of permanent effectiveness, and rather pinned its faith to an overwhelming destroyer armada to combat the U-boats. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The Nicholson immediately trained her guns on the U-boat, which, on the second shot, disappeared under the water. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z To get arms and munitions into Ireland in substantial quantities requires something besides the U-boats which Germany seems willing to offer. The Moonlit Way The U-boat was running with a little less than half her normal cruising buoyancy—for speed of diving and not surface speed was the important qualification for her for that day. H.M.S. —— She says she is looking forward to going round a U-boat! The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z They had, on their first voyage, escaped the submarines, a feat which was not palatable to Germany, who sought to bolster up a waning popular confidence in the U-boat campaign. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. So far as could be seen the U-boat was in perfect condition. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Every brutal Teutonic disregard of decency since then ought to have meant war—every unarmed ship sunk by their U-boats, every outrage in America perpetrated by their spies and agents ought to have meant war. The Moonlit Way "Yes," he said, "I have no reason to suppose the U-boat had not followed the steamer, or that she was not present all the time." H.M.S. —— I was the more annoyed in that her main object was obviously to be seen walking with a U-boat officer. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z The stations were accordingly closed, as the capital was under the fire of the German guns, but later the U-boat commander insisted upon their being destroyed. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. They were clearly made by hammers beating on the steel body of the U-boat. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Although we were still far from where there was yet any chance of encountering the U-boat which had attacked the convoy, there were two or three alarms in the course of the next hour. Sea-Hounds As his torpedoes left the tubes the U-boat captain barked out an order. H.M.S. —— To-day I went through my final test for qualification as U-boat commander. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z On November 24, 1917, one U-boat was sunk by the United States destroyers, Fanning and Nicholson, while on patrol service in European waters. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. When daylight returned and the weather calmed down the chasers again put over their tubes and attempted to "fix" the U-boat. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z She’s been mixed up in several kinds of stunts, and is supposed to have a U-boat or two to her credit. Sea-Hounds As he stood working, a terrific concussion shook the U-boat from stem to stern. H.M.S. —— It appears to me that a special concentration of U-boats is being ordered round about the Orkneys, and that some big scheme is on hand. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z On December 6, 1917, the United States destroyer Jacob Jones was sunk by a U-boat and 60 lives were lost. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. For twenty minutes everybody lay there, hoping and praying that the U-boat would emerge. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z That was the first thing I looked after, and the next was the U-boat; or rather, we were looking out for both at the same time. Sea-Hounds We sure did, and saw nix—not even a U-boat. H.M.S. —— Bruges was probably a hot-bed of U-boat gossip, and, not unlike the conditions at certain other Naval ports during the war, the ladies were often too well informed. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z "The transport question would offer difficulties not less than supplies," and, of course, "the German U-boats would be a further obstacle." The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Even then many doubted the ability of the U-boats to operate successfully in the open sea westward of the British Isles. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The bow of the U-boat broke surface almost immediately, the fact that it showed before the conning-tower proving at once that she was hard hit and heavily down by the stern. Sea-Hounds "The Destroyer was responsible for the extraordinary increase in the mortality among U-boats." John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall Not a word of naval news, my Karl; you will remember I never tried to find out U-boat information. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z In the same period U-boats sank sixty-one Italian steamers and forty-six Italian sailing vessels. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. There was no U-boat in the German navy which the Allied forces were so ambitious to "get" as the U-53. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z An angling sort of bar, which appeared as a black line above the bows in the photograph, was labelled “Nut Cutter,” and several other characteristic U-boat devices were similarly indicated. Sea-Hounds After the first few weeks the Destroyer had been brought south, there to catch U-boats soon after they submerged. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall These English had published the names of 150 U-boat commanders they had caught. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Regarding the German losses in U-boats, practically no definite information is available. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Destroyers, with their depth charges and their gunfire, sank more U-boats than any other agency. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Now, about the only thing which is correct about that account is the statement that a U-boat was sunk. Sea-Hounds The small island of Auchinlech possessed a natural harbour of sufficient size for the mother-ship to enter, after which the entrance was to be guarded by a defensive boom as a safeguard against U-boats. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall I don't want to die in a U-boat. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Two other U-boats were reported to have been sunk during December in the Ionian Sea by a French destroyer. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. A certain submarine received a battering which it seemed hardly likely that any U-boat could survive; yet, almost by a miracle, it crept back to its German base and reported the manner of its undoing. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z “The success of any kind of stunt for harrying the U-boat is very largely a matter of psychology, and this is especially so in the ‘Q’ department. Sea-Hounds The fourth set of plans of German U-boats had disappeared. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall So I am to leave the U-boat service, and leave it under a cloud! The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z She judged that if a U-boat were so near to the coast, then somebody in collusion with the enemy must be about on the shore. The Head Girl at the Gables That the Germans knew all about these vessels became apparent when one of their naval publications fell into our hands, giving complete descriptions and containing directions to U-boat commanders how to meet this new menace. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z From the first I had been striving to give the U-boat mixed impressions of me, especially on the score of which way I was going. Sea-Hounds "Then in all probability the U-boats will pass over you." John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall It is a sad come-down from Captain of a U-boat to Lieutenant in barracks, a job reserved for the medically unfit for sea service. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z They had a secret store of barrels of oil inside the cave, and were taking them out to supply the U-boat. The Head Girl at the Gables This gave them a great advantage in hunting the U-boats. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z If a U-boat skipper lying in wait for us could have told what she was going to do next, I can only say that he would have known a lot more than I did. Sea-Hounds |
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