Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ships and troop carriers from the US and other Allied nations. The underwater predators ...

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

291–310, 333–34. 16. Hezlet, The Submarine and Sea Power, pp. 85–92; Tarrant, The U-Boat Offensive, pp. 31–46; Halpern, A Naval History of World War I, pp. 335–39. 17. “One merchant ship in four”: ...

Duke's Auctioneers The white bars signify merchant ships and the red bars represent warships sunk by the submarine When the flag came to light in the loft, Mr Sharp said: "I didn't know what it ...

Italy deployed 32 submarines to the Atlantic, seventeen of which were lost along with around 500 crew. On the Allied side, 3,500 merchant ships were sunk during the battle, along with 175 warships. 36 ...

Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ships and troop carriers from the US and other Allied nations. The underwater predators sank ...