It was only discovered by chance in 2001 by a diving party searching for the wreck of a naval destroyer sunk by a U-boat during World War Two. |
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The Royal Oak, a Royal Navy flagship, was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow off Orkney near the start of the second world war. |
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His assumption is based on research he has done into the sinking of the Lusitania, which was downed by a German U-boat during World War One. |
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In his book, he raises the possibility that a German spy, based in Scotland, may have helped lead the U-boat into Scapa Flow. |
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The Squid was a formidable weapon in the war against the U-boat, capable of being preset to explode at a pre-determined depth. |
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Here you will find the remains of the pressure hull of the first U-boat, with other fair-sized pieces of wreckage close by. |
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Sometimes he was right, as in his denunciation of the pointless attacks on the concrete-reinforced U-boat pens on the French coast. |
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The warship, sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 with the loss of 833 lives, is a designated war grave. |
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The entire range of U-boat countermeasures available to the allies was deployed at one time or another in the channel. |
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The U-boat crew grimly stalked its prey under rather less opulent living conditions. |
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Byron was killed in the second world war aged only 35, lost when his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Wrath. |
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Prominent among those struggles was the battle of the Atlantic, waged against the U-boat menace. |
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I suspect that the production stopped short of plagiarism, but it probably sailed very close to the U-boat. |
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He died in 1941, just 35, after a German U-boat torpedoed the ship on which he was sailing as a BBC correspondent to Cairo. |
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If he spotted a U-boat, not only would he call for backup, he wanted to attack the sub himself. |
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The U-boat command had no choice but to continue to fight right to the bitter end. |
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At sea, the punishing U-boat campaign continued, and the war in the Atlantic was cruel and unrelenting. |
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With its stabilizer removed, it sailed at high speed on a zigzag course, thus reducing the chance of accurate U-boat targeting. |
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Blood and carnage are everywhere but this is no battle field scene, result of a U-boat attack or the aftermath of a terrorist car bomb. |
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An aircraft would on many occasions surprise a surfaced U-boat and attack it with both cannon fire and depth charges. |
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The ship is thought to have been torpedoed by a U-boat in World War One. |
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It was torpedoed by a German U-boat towards the end of World War Two. |
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There was a procession to St Margaret's Church for a special service of prayer for the men fighting the U-boat menace on the high seas. |
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The planes were catapulted to search and attack the German U-boat wolf packs that were sinking droves of ships in convoys. |
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The crew of a U.S. submarine is sent on a top-secret mission to board a disabled German U-boat and steal a secret encoding device. |
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After 37 days at sea his ship limped into Sydney after being torpedoed by a German U-boat. |
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Unbeknownst to her, she destroys the U-boat, and it would be long after the war ended before the ship will be credited with the kill. |
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It is like Hitler's bunker or a drowned U-boat. |
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It can therefore get much closer to a U-boat before being detected, drop down on it and launch its depth charges before the submarine can dive. |
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The U-boat then gathered way and disappeared into the darkness. |
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That improved depth charge, however, still needed to be within 7 metres of a U-boat to pierce its hull. |
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It almost worked, but not far off Cape Farewell, Greenland, it was spotted by a U-boat. |
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This is when the Q-boat crew would quickly remove the panels that concealed the armaments and open fire on the U-boat. |
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A THE SS Empire Gilbert was torpedoed by a German U-boat on Nov 2, 1942, off the coast of Iceland between Jan Mayen Island and Spitsbergen. |
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The Q-ship was attacked by a German U-boat, UC29, and struck by a torpedo at close range. |
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Within another year the cryptanalysts, who included Joan Clarke, had deciphered the all-important naval messages that strategized U-boat attacks. |
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These death-dealing patrols, coupled with the regular pulse of naval convoy escorts out of St. John's and Argentia, finally won the upper hand in the U-boat war. |
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