This article provides an overview of the use of submarines in WWI with many images. Contains the first-person account of a U-Boat commander's attack on a ship.

This is the text of the short story "A Boating Adventure in the Carolines" by Louis Becke, a shipwreck story.

Diary of James P. Sullivan provides insight into daily events and Sullivan's views of events as he was aboard the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, U.S.S. HIST, during the Spanish-American War.

German U-boat attacks made it increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain its neutrality in World War II. Read Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech given on September 11, 1949, in response to the German attack on the US destroyer,...

Text of a statement by William Jennings Bryan protesting the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats.

Read the text of a note sent to the German government by Woodrow Wilson protesting the sinking of the Lusitania.

President Wilson's remarks before Congress concerning the German sinking of the unarmed Channel steamer Sussex on March 24, 1916.

Read this official German document, translated into English, from 1917 concerning the issue of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I.

This is an account by Lt. Bustamente, the executive officer of the Spanish Torpedo boat, Destroyer FUROR, who writes about the Naval Battle of Santiago during the Spanish American War.

The journal kept by John Donelson during the journey by boats down the Tennessee River in 1779-80 is one of the great records of American migration. The most dramatic day of the journey was Wednesday, March 8, a day in which Donelson's...

Description and photos of the destroyers (torpedo boats) of the Great White Fleet.