By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major powers possessed submarines, but their role was still undefined. Were they long ...

The U-505 Constructed at the docks of Hamburg, Germany, the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared ...

Summary: The article traces the history of German submarines from World War II ... the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most ...