In response, merchant ships travelled in convoys, protected by the Royal Navy. Yet the Mediterranean remained one of the most dangerous sea passages in the world. U-boats were sinking allied ships ...

A World War Two veteran is being recognised for his service to protect merchant shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic. Bob Booth, 100, from Manchester joined the Royal Navy at 18, and has ...

The submarine UC-75 was responsible for sinking 56 merchant ships and two warships before it went down in the North Sea in 1918. But propellers from the vessel were found in a storage unit in ...