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 ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

Of the 902 servicemen, merchant seamen and civilian workers aboard the Dorchester, 672 died. It was the largest loss of life during a ship convoy in World War II. Volunteers with the nonprofit ...

During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...

A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...

Factbox-Houthi Attacks on Merchant Ships in the Red Sea (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said the Iran-aligned group will monitor the implementation of a ceasefire ...

the sight of four U.S. Army chaplains with linked arms and heads bowed in prayer as the ship went down, according to Stories Behind the Stars. Of the Dorchester’s 902 passengers, only 230 survived.

The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023 and have sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers. The intensity of attacks has disrupted ...