During the Second World War the Germans experimented with an interesting rotary wing design known as a 'rotor kite'. These ...

In the early 1990s, American divers uncovered a mystery off the coast of New Jersey: an unmarked German submarine resting ...

Former Friars great rejoins the basketball program as an assistant coach; and 12 stunning spots to photograph in RI this ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

One of the deadliest military machines of World War II was the infamous German U-boat. While most people know a little about U-boats and are more than aware that they're submarines, one thing that ...

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

It's a true story which happened in 1917, during the latter stages of the First World War, at a location roughly 180 miles off the Irish coast, it had been a dire time for Britain's merchant shipping, ...

What you call them depends on where they're made. A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The whole "boat ...

U-111 is the last known enemy submarine wreck from WWI in waters off the eastern seaboard—and never should have been found. A stereo card image of surrendered German ... model of the U-boat.

Now, what’s really interesting is in 1914, when the war just begins, the German U boats still adhere to what are called prize rules. [00:02:50] Michael Muir: so naval warfare, operates under ...