Disasters and Shipwrecks

One of the safest modes of transport on the sea is in fact the hovercraft, not technically a ship, or a boat but it is an aircraft which ori...

The jewellers shop at 119 Houndsditch, London , was owned by a Henry Samuel Harris and in the cold month of December 1910 he had no idea tha...

Of all the warships in the Royal Navy that have gone down in history, the story of HMS Barham is one that has been told many times, not leas...

It was just 24 hours after war had been declared between a coalition force comprising of the USA , UK , Poland , Australia and a host of ot...

There are few sea stories that come with a vast amount of drama of such ships as those that set sail to the Arctic as part of explorer John ...

Of all the missions in the Second World War, one stood out in the early months as both death defying and impressive, despite the huge loss o...

The person who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel area of London in late 1888 is without doubt the most famous serial killer i...