Disasters and Shipwrecks

On 7 th July 2005 London was waking up to the newspaper headlines that many had hoped would come for a long time. The announcement that...

The island of Cyprus has always been a wealth of history and the shipwrecks that litter the coast tell a story the gives the country its c...

In the early months of 2006 a building appeared in the skyline of the Kingdom of Bahrain that was unlike any other building in the wor...

The Second World War was six years of every kind of story you could imagine. It would be impossible to focus on one particular area of the ...

The steamship Rohilla is one that is famous in the small North Yorkshire town of Whitby but for both tragic and heroic reasons. Built as...

19 th August 1987 started out as any normal sunny day at the height of the school holidays in the Berkshire market town of Hungerford, UK...

Christmas is usually a festive time where families are brought together and the winter nights mean cosy times in front of a fire away fr...