PHILADELPHIA (WCAU) — A dozen people boating on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia had to be rescued when their boat began sinking early Thursday morning. Officials say a 911 call was made by ...
It holds pre-1941 merchant seamen's service records ... one of the most dangerous sea passages in the world. U-boats were sinking allied ships at a rate of one every 36 hours.
All were safely brought to the surface in four round-trips using the McCann submarine rescue chamber ... with U-boats claiming some 712 merchant victims. They were sinking ships at more than ...
A stolen propeller from a World War One U-boat is being returned to Germany after being recovered in Wales. The submarine UC-75 was responsible for sinking 56 merchant ships and two warships ...
From patrolling the far-flung reaches of the Empire to escorting vital merchant convoys ... could not stop every U-boat getting through. Before his death in 2020, Able Seaman Peter Gibbs, the ...
Launched in 1940, U-123 was a Type IXB U-boat, a sub-type of the large IX submarines that were built specifically for long-distance excursions. She proved a formidable vessel, sinking 44 merchant ...
or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.
The sinking ... highly effective U-boat hunter-killers. For the last two years of the war, Germany was reduced to attacking shipping around British coastal waters. The ‘Happy Time’ of the Wolf Packs ...
A bystander sacrificed his drone to help rescue a family of seven on a sinking boat on Utah Lake, sheriff’s officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A bystander sacrificed his drone to help ...