After it was hit by a German torpedo during World War I, a British warship sunk to the bottom of the North Sea, where it has ...
On October 15, 1914, a British warship called the HMS Hawke was sailing off the coast of Scotland when it was hit by a German ...
As Soviet forces advanced in Eastern Europe in 1944, Nazi troops began deliberately sinking their ships in the Danube River. For much of the past 80 years, the scuttled German vessels—including ...
Sunken Nazi WWII ships have once again emerged in the River Danube, following a blistering summer drought that caused water ...
Submarines have changed both naval warfare and global politics. Here are some of the most important submarines that ever ...
Thousands of children are still learning survival skills at camps first created to teach young sailors how to withstand ...
Fryatt, the master of the British merchant ship Brussels, was a familiar figure on the Rotterdam-to-Southampton route.
But the new submarine technology of the German U-boats allowed them to avoid the blockade and sink several Allied warships and civilian ships. Heath said the Hawke was sunk by a torpedo from a U ...
The hull of the HMTS Justicia, which lies 70m down on the seabed off the Donegal coast. Picture: Barry McGill Indepth ...
It took just eight minutes for HMS Hawke to come to rest on the seabed and for 524 officers and men to lose their lives, but it would take a ...
The trip was ill-fated from the start. Sailors, always highly superstitious, were troubled that the voyage began on Friday, ...
The U-boat skipper stared through his periscope through the murky September waters of the North Atlantic. He smiled at what ...