The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

Flickr/Grille1991 The U-Boat Attacks off Myrtle Beach German submarines hunted ships off South Carolina in early 1942, bringing World War II to American shores. From January to June, Nazi U-boats sank ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, a German U-boat attack turned the Irish Sea into a graveyard, claiming over 500 lives in ...

During what has become known as the Battle of France in World War II, German troops had surrounded more than 338,000 allied troops on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk ...

A father and son abandoned their sinking boat into a life raft and were rescued about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A father and son abandoned their sinking boat into a life raft and were rescued about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

When the German U-boats targeted the Lusitania with a torpedo, the ship sank more quickly than expected. Here's why that happened according to modern reports.

Of the 47-person crew, only 14 survivors remained. German soldiers watch the sinking of the HMS Empire Mica from the bridge of their U-boat, U-67, on June 29, 1942. Collection of Martin K.A. Morgan ...

U-853 made a big mistake sinking that collier. The next day, a hunter-killer group of U.S. warships converged on the waters off Point Judith, tracking the German sub near Block Island and hitting ...

Nine people were rescued from a sinking sailboat in the San Francisco Bay on Saturday. Shortly before 2 p.m., the San Francisco Fire Department received a call alerting them to a boat in distress ...