While things took a turn for the worse for Karl Dönitz and his U-boats in the Atlantic, in the Pacific the US Silent Service was now lead...
Just when Karl Dönitz thinks he is finally winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the Allies deliver a stunning blow.
After Pearl Harbor, Japanese submarines make their mark while US and allied subs retreat to safer waters. Meanwhile, a dramatic incident in...
It’s early 1942 and Hitler has declared war on the United States. Dönitz sends his U-boats to the mostly unprotected US east coast...
December 1941. You know what that means.
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March to December 1941. US president Roosevelt wanted to help Britain against the U-boat scourge but had to do so secretly. The result was...
When we think of submarines, we’re likely to conjure in our mind photos and videos of German U-boats sinking British transports in the...
Most submarine development action in the 1870-1900 period took place on the European continent. But though the British admiralty wasn’t interested in...
Every new development depends on geniuses. One of those was Narcis Monturiol.The American Civil War had ended and the US government was demobilizing...
Robert Fulton invented the Nautilus submarine, another milestone future inventors would build upon. Fulton was born on November 14, 1765 in the town...
The first submersible to be built after Drebbel’s devices was the Rotterdam Boat, named after the Dutch city where a French inventor known to history...
Cornelis Drebbel is generally seen as the father of all submarines. He laid down the groundwork for submarine basics, the general concepts of which...