Lt. Cmdr. James Coe of the submarine Skipjack battled for his boat to receive what he deemed a basic necessity: toilet paper.

In the still midnight waters of the Barents Sea, HMS Conqueror, a Churchill-class nuclear submarine, crept silently beneath the surface on a top-secret mission. It was the summer of 1982, and ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were lost to history — until now.

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist Alexander Rose. Little, Brown, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-56447-2 ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...