submarine

The Past

Hunt begins for submarine buried beneath Dartmouth park

Launched in 1917, she saw a brief period of service during the final year of the war, and was responsible for sinking the German U-B

Right A screenshot of the wreck site of USS Albacore, which was lost at sea on 7 November 1944. Poor visibility at the site made her identification challenging.

Wreck of lost US submarine from WWII identified off the coast of Japan

The discovery was made by the underwater archaeology team of Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

Right U 111 in New York City, April 1919. She sailed to the US as part of a small convoy to raise money for Victory Bonds and was later intentionally sunk in the Atlantic.

Wreck of WWI-era German submarine identified in US waters

A team of specialist divers secretly traced the final resting place of U-111.

The Past

This week: submarines

Underwater warfare came of age on 15 September 1914, when Germany’s U-21 became the first submarine to sink a ship with a self-propelled torpedo. The U-boat’s devastating surprise attack, off the Firth of Forth, sank the British cruiser HMS Pathfinder…

Below A U boat attack on a British commercial freighter during the First World War, as depicted by the German artist Willy Stöwer in 1915.

Hell and high water: submarine culture

In an extract from a new book, John Medhurst traces the history of the submarine in warfare, from the earliest experiments to the First World War.

News in brief: HS2, a submarine, and medieval writers

News round-up featuring updates from HS2 archaeologists' excavations in Stoke Mandeville, the scheduling of a submarine wreck off the coast of Dartmouth, and a medieval database launched by the University of St Andrews.