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On this site you will find all the German U-boats of both World Wars, their commanding officers and operations including all Allied ships attacked, technological information and much more. You can also browse our large photo gallery and thousands of U-boat books and movies. While hundreds of U-boats were lost some of the boats are preserved as museums today.

We also have a huge section covering the Allied forces and their struggle with the U-boat threat – not to mention the Pacific war. Included there are all the Allied Warships and thousands of Allied Commanding officers from all the major navies (US Navy, Royal Navy, …) plus technical pages and information on the air forces.

What's new on this site


27 Aug
German U-boat surrenders at end of WWII
We're in the midst of a total revision of the commonly accepted facts on the dates and locations of German U-boats surrendering at the end of the war. Upcoming is a new page showing all the surrenders and revisions. While we compile the big list Derek Waller has been piecing together articles on the various aspects of the surrenders. Today we've published two of them; U-Boats that Surrendered - Operation Cabal. The Delivery of 10 U-Boats from the UK to the USSR in 1945/46 and U-Boats that Surrendered. The Surrender of the Narvik U-Boats in May 1945. Check them out, they explain several things that are first coming to light.

9 Aug
U-boat Commander passes away
Another U-boat Commander has passed away. Oblt. Jürgen Thimme of U-276 and U-716 passed away on 7 Aug 2010 at the age of 92.

7 Aug
U-boat Commander passes away
Another U-boat Commander has passed away. This time it was no other than Jürgen Oesten former commander of U-106 and U-861. He was one of the top aces, having sunk over 100,000 tons of shipping. He was 96 years old when he died on 5 Aug 2010. Only 2 of the top aces remain now; Hardegen and Lassen.

28 Jul
Wreck of British tanker Shirvan likely found
On 28 July 2010 oceanic researches from the company Hafmyndir ehf. in cooperation with scientists from University of Iceland, using a small Icelandic-made research submarine, believe they have found the wreck of the Shirvan. The ship lies in 3 pieces at depth of 100 in roughly the reported position.

28 Jul
Book review published
After too long a book review hiatus I finally got around to publishing a new one. This time it's for the fantastic title The Battle for Norway, April-June 1940 by Geirr H. Haarr. The topic is slightly off our normal scope but its touches on the U-boat operations off Norway plus the numerous naval operations during the campaign.

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From the Gallery


U-505 in transit to Chicago

Lorient - Keroman base

Model of U-617 at sea

Announcement Board

U-864 to undergo further research before possible raising (6 Mar 2010)

HMS E18 found (24 Oct 2009)

U 40 from WWI has been located (6 Apr 2009)

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