Disasters and Shipwrecks

There are few areas in the world that suffer more than one headline hitting tragedy but the small town of Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire i...

The night of 17th November 1993 was one that excited the children of Hagley Roman Catholic High School as they attended a school trip over t...

Few disasters could ever conjure up the horror of death as that of being trapped within a sinking ship, and for the 1960s a shipwreck such a...

On 24th May 1995 Britain was shocked by the front pages of the newspapers announcing the death of 10 people in a coach crash on the M4 mot...

Resting alongside her berth in the port of Southampton lies an old-looking vessel that has probably seen better days and wouldn't look o...

The run up to Christmas 1988 was going to be as busy as ever, especially for London which is already crammed as ever with shoppers and wo...

75 years ago the largest and most powerful battleship in the world was lost in the Pacific in what was described as a suicide mission whic...