Submarines have changed both naval warfare and global politics. Here are some of the most important submarines that ever ...

When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake ...

The hull of the HMTS Justicia, which lies 70m down on the seabed off the Donegal coast. Picture: Barry McGill Indepth ...

Read on to discover history's most iconic ships, from Darwin's HMS Beagle to the legendary Titanic and more... Dating from ...

My grandmother was a vaudeville and sideshow performer in the early 1900s. She performed as the Amazing Ruth with a pretty sizable python named Elmer. Elmer was dropped from the act in 1922 when he ...

At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday. A wooden boat carrying 70 farmers capsized as it ...

The U-boat skipper stared through his periscope through the murky September waters of the North Atlantic. He smiled at what ...

The Philippines withdrew its Coast Guard vessel from a South China Sea shoal that’s recently been at the center of tensions with Beijing. BRP Teresa Magbanua “was compelled to return to port ...

A 300-year-old ship whose loss was controversially blamed on its drunken Irish crew has been found off the coast of Norway. Divers off Mandal, in the far south of the country, thought the wreck ...

The poem was a smash hit when it debuted in 1863, making Barbara Fritchie a household name in the North and going on to ...

Secret Imperial German plan to divert American-made phenol away from the British war effort From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...