The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its ...

In 1967, a German chemical tanker was ripped in two by a massive internal explosion, leaving its forward half drifting through one of the Atlantic’s busiest shipping lanes. Fearing an environmental ...

The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, marked the anniversary of the Maine explosion with a familiar refrain: blaming ...

The explosion and sinking of a U.S. battleship in Havana harbor in 1898 propelled the United States toward war with Spain.

In 1493, while on his return journey to Europe, Christopher Columbus wrote an open letter of his discoveries on his voyage to ...

A war veteran who survived the D-Day landings has died at the age of 100. Stan Ford, who was born in Bristol but lived in Bath, Somerset, celebrated his milestone birthday in May 2025, at a party ...

Tributes remember Stan Ford as a man of ‘profound service and courage’ who ‘dedicated himself to keeping alive the memory of his ...

Stan Ford, of Bath, suffered life-changing injuries onboard the HMS Fratton when it was sunk off the coast of Normandy on 18 ...

A British D-Day veteran who survived the famous landings and a catastrophic assault on his naval ship has died at the age of ...

Tributes have been paid to a West Country war hero after his death at the age of 100. Cyril Stanley ‘Stan’ Ford took part in ...

On April 18, 1988, the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms, sunk one frigate and a missile boat, crippled a second ...