Disasters and Shipwrecks

It was the early hours of 25 th August 1994 and the roll-on-roll-off car ferry Sally Star was making her way from Dunkirk to Ramsgate with...

When the Titanic sank on 15 th April 1912 it sent shockwaves around the world, so many people involved in this shipwreck, so many names thr...

Since the age of 11 I have had a fascination with disasters, particularly the lost ships of the world but this soon extended to air disaster...

When war broke out in the South Atlantic in 1982 few could imagine just how much would happen in just a few months. From the initial invasio...

© Joerg Seyler via ShipSpotting.com On Thursday 28 th March 1996 a call came through to Humber Coastguard at Bridlington that an incident o...

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...