America’s sea-based nuclear deterrent is entering a dangerous squeeze. The Navy’s 12-boat Columbia-class program is slipping ...

Submarine builder Electric Boat continues to hire at a record-breaking pace, but the company said it expects another challenging year as it works to meet Pentagon production targets during the most ...

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's ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

Germany’s great U-boat fleet had been defeated, but not demolished, in 1942 and 1943. Last week President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill joined in a warning to the United Nations that Adolf ...

I'm a treasure hunter by trade. I normally hunt shipwrecks of the early colonial period. Back when I was 19, I was with my dad hunting shipwrecks in the Caribbean. As we ventured into international ...

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 aircraft ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.