They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of "dazzle" camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston ...

They were designed to engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, luring in surfaced U-boats as British crews pretended to escape in “panic parties” before a German submarine commander blew up ...

As a Royal Navy volunteer in World War One, he had become all too aware of the threat from Germany’s U-boats. Wilkinson decided he could use his artistic skills to protect Allied ships.

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the ... Jeremy Paxman explains Lord Kitchener's iconic recruitment PR campaign of WW1. Crushing defeat in the first battle ...

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...