World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of February 19, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

Europe’s monthslong drought has exposed the hulls of German ships sunk toward the end of WWII in the Danube River. The 20 exposed hulls near the Serbian river port town of Prahovo are just a fraction ...

MILAN (AP) — Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor ...

The German Navy frigate Hessen has departed from Wilhelmshaven towards the Red Sea for a European Union mission aimed at defending cargo ships from Houthi rebel attacks. Approximately 240 personnel ...

An extreme drought in Europe has left one of the continent's largest rivers, the Danube, at its lowest water levels in nearly a century. Those low water levels have exposed dozens of German warships – ...

The German frigate Hessen came close to shooting down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper over the Red Sea earlier this week, according to German media. The ship detected the drone on its radar but was unable to ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Nazi government needed time to negotiate the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which allowed new battleship construction. Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German battleships closed in at more than at thirty knots. The British destroyers attempted to lay smoke to cover the carrier’s withdrawal, but it was too late.

BERLIN — Two cargo ships collided in the North Sea off the coast of Germany on Tuesday and one of them sank, German authorities said. At least one sailor died and rescuers were trying to find another ...

Readers: Our August 2020 column on the Batista museum in Daytona Beach drew a note from loyal reader Leonard Primack of Boynton Beach. “I immediately thought of the German ship St. Louis," he wrote.