During the WHOI mission to photograph the USS F-1, the researchers also surveyed another piece of military wreckage: a lost ...

Often, only a small piece survives, so a museum may have something like a boat's conning tower or deck gun, but nothing else. However, there is one German U-boat that's not only intact ...

Cox, retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and head of the Naval History and Heritage Command, resonate with special solemnity in ...

Hogel's book came out almost as a novelty, his own idea of how to preserve and record the conning tower symbols or emblems for each U-boat. Since about 75 percent of Germany's U-boats were lost ...

The U-boat seems to loom out of the blackness, careening to starboard, as if to avoid a collision. As it glides by in the image, its deck gun is unmanned, its conning tower empty, the wooden deck ...

Sonar guides them through the darkness below, until they have visual on their target: the German U-boat U-576 ... as can the sub’s conning tower, guarded by a school of grouper.

(A conning tower is the raised platform above the top ... 100 years after its crew surrendered The SM U-111 was one of five German U-boats from World War I that were sunk in U.S. waters (there ...

The resulting video footage is reminiscent of the Titanic operation: One of the camera-equipped robots got close enough to get eerie pictures of the U-boat's conning tower, radio antenna ...

The deck of the U-boat with the conning tower rising in the background. photograph by Benjamin Lowy, National Geographic An open hatch on the conning tower of U-111 reveals an interior ladder.

An open hatch on the conning tower of U-111 reveals an interior ladder ... using an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) to hunt down the U-boat at a site where they believed the wreckage to be.

The U-boat skipper, Hans-Dieter Heinicke ... U-576, with its heraldic lion motif painted on the conning tower, had suffered serious and irreparable damage to its main ballast tank from an earlier ...

Part of its deck and all of its conning tower — the armored pilothouse ... “For the first time, we saw a sunken U-boat that really looked like a German submarine.” The question now ...