Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

or white to confuse German U-boat captains as to the vessels’ speed and direction of travel. A 1919 study by MIT naval architecture student Leo Blodgett suggested that dazzle camouflage worked ...

On 26 August Captain Bryant accepted the German surrender ... developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats ... This would not have made a difference to a WW1 U-boat commander hunting slow merchant ships.

Atmospheric WWI spy tale. A German U-Boat captain sent on a spying mission to Scotland finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.

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 ...