Top: Original WW1 ship models painted to test dazzle ... was used alongside other U-Boat countermeasures and merchant ships sailed in convoys protected by naval escorts. The Admiralty had clearly ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...
During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...