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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


6 Mar
Silent Hunter V disappoints
The game that should have been Silent Hunter III with much improved graphics and gameplay does include a highly controversial copy-protection scheme (DRM) that will drive customers away - at least me. You have to be constantly online or the game will stop playing. Terrible idea and I fear this is going to heavily reduce sales. Ubisoft, the publisher, has had some awful DRM schems before but this one might be the worst yet. Read about it on Amazon.com.

13 Feb
Emblems section improved
After a "complaint" regarding incomplete emblem entries for a certain U-boat I've started again my work on adding new emblems to the site. In the last few weeks I've added over 60 new emblems, for a total of over 215 emblems. I also have started adding "emblem not available yet" for the images not yet created - this enables me to describe the missing emblems to give a complete view of each boat, see U-505 for example. U-boats from 1 to 137 have all emblems listed, with image or not. I also created new pages such as Most popular Emblems.

1 Feb
New book review published
Added a review of the title The Wheezers and Dodgers by Gerald Pawle. This fine book covers the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development of the Royal Navy during WWII.



29 Jan
U-boat Commander Photos added
Added photos of the following 14 German U-boat commanders of WWI;
KrvKpt. Robert Bartels, Oblt. Kurt Braun, KrvKpt. Rainer Dierksen, Kptlt. Hans-Wilhelm von Dresky, Oblt. Gerhard Glattes, KrvKpt. Ludwig Mathes, Kplt. Hans Möglich, Kptlt. Herbert Nollau, Oblt. Rudolf Ites, Kplt. Jürgen Quaet-Faslem, Kplt. Siegfried Rollmann, Kptlt. Hans-Rutger Tillessen, FrgKpt. Gerhard Wiebe, and KrvKpt. Werner Witte.

These photos were provided by the kind folks of the Deutsches U-Boot Museum-Archiv (see contact information).

2 Jan
New gallery of diving photos
Mr. Taner Aksoy dived the scuttled U-20 off the Turkish coast on 27 Dec 2009 and provided us with very nice photos. See our new U 20 in the Black Sea diving gallery containing 14 photos.

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From the Gallery


Model of U-617 at sea

Elbe II bunker in Hamburg after the war

U-534 at Birkenhead, England

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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