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The D-boat with survivors from the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, about to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia. Photo: J.W.
When air travel became the primary way for people to cross the ocean, one ocean liner got a rehabilitation that would change ...
Greenock Ocean Terminal is set for a busy stretch of arrivals as nine different ships are set to sail into Inverclyde over ...
Ocean liner SS Schiller sank close to the Isles of Scilly on the night of 7 May 1875, with the loss of more than 300 lives ...
On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast, as it sailed from New York to Liverpool. Thousands of passengers were onboard and 1,200 ...
Luciano “Louis” Graziano led Nazi officers to Eisenhower after they signed the surrender. Now 102, he recalls what came next.
One of the most important incidents of World War I took place on May 7, 1915, when the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, ...
The letter has been described as 'prophetic' as the 54-year-old was one of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board when the ocean liner struck an iceberg in the Atlantic five days into its journey.
If achievable, this would far exceed the 20-knot average of contemporary ocean liners. Bazin himself boldly claimed that a scaled-up version of his ship could reach speeds of up to 47 knots ...
Eventually the giant ocean liner will be towed and then sunk off the coast of Destin, Florida. "By creating a reef with something as iconic as the SS United States it's going to bring a lot of ...