Disasters and Shipwrecks

The village of Ufton Nervet lies six miles from the town of Reading and for many years was a very quiet area with empty roads and only the...

The start of the 20 th Century saw an arms race like never before, with the building of the new Dreadnought style battleships not only i...

The American Civil War had been raging for four years and had cost the lives of thousands of soldiers, sailors and civilians on both the ...

The Caribbean island of Grenada is a paradise for those tourists who are looking to relax and have a good time on holiday, the countless c...

When the grandest ship in the world became the most shocking sea disaster of her time it was obvious that the shock of this event would ...

A previous blog entry of mine has shown just how many sunken German U-boats litter the seabed off the Yorkshire Coast but it was the victi...

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...