18. -- Torpedo boat G 137, which has attained a speed of 33.9 knots, (about 39 land miles,) is declared to be the fastest war vessel afloat. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The S-130 was one of the German fast attack vessels known as ... During World War Two wooden minesweepers and motor torpedo boats were constructed there. The dock has been derelict for about ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk ... One of those officers was U-boat skipper Karl Dönitz. He was assigned as commanding officer of a torpedo boat—a submarine on the surface ...

These would stand alongside the S130, which is the last surviving example of a German schnellboot from ... wooden minesweepers and motor torpedo boats during the Second World War, it was been ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U ... died in the torpedo explosions or drowned in the cold ocean waters afterward. In some incidents, U-boats also attacked ...

Peter Bickmore was aboard the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat 243 when a devastating air raid hit the Italian port of Bari in December 1943. The raid by German bombers caused the deadly release of ...