Disasters and Shipwrecks

Photo by Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft first came on the scene during the Cold War in ...

Over the last ten years or so there has been a noticeable increase in the deaths of migrants in mass casualty disasters caused by those at t...

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...