What Happens in ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’? Those who have already seen the mini-series know that Whiskey on the Rocks follows the crew of the Soviet submarine, U-137.

On October 27 1981 in the famous “Whiskey on the Rocks” incident, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground deep inside Swedish waters right in the open air where any Swedish news outlet could film ...

The Whiskey class boats are basically modified versions of the German Type XXI U-boats. The German subs were 1,600 ton craft, and actually more capable than the 1,100 ton Whiskeys. But that's because ...

The boat in question was S-363, a Soviet Whiskey-class coastal patrol submarine—thus giving the incident its moniker “the Whiskey on the Rocks.” (At the time, the submarine was widely mis ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no ...

The Royal Navy's most advanced anti-submarine warship has officially been named HMS Glasgow, honoring Scotland's second city. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended the naming ceremony at BAE ...

For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey, but not all whiskeys are bourbon. In that same vein, all U-boats are submarines, but not all submarines are U-boats.

According to NATO codenames, Soviet submarines of the S-363 type were called “Whiskey class”. When one such submarine got stranded close to the Swedish coast in October 1981, the English ...