Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end, the celebrations in Orkney went on long into the night.

On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...

John Bricker, who's been diving the ship for 37 years, said he filmed the deteriorating wreckage "to try to get an idea of ...

Eighty years after a torpedo ripped through the hull of the USS Eagle PE-56, just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth’s ...

A stealthy group of German U-boats stalks an unsuspecting Allied convoy in the Atlantic, with U-270 initiating the attack.

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The crew had spotted the wreckage of the tanker R.P. Resnor, still burning at the surface after an attack from a German U-boat. A search ... The first was also sunk by torpedo while on escort ...

But in what is now part of folklore surrounding the author of the Problem of the Rupee, a German torpedo sent his work sinking to the bottom of the English Channel. As it happened, the sinking was ...

Besides sending the whole world into chaos, Germans had an unlikely victim in BR Ambedkar during the First World War. In 1917, aboard the ship, SS Salcette, the young academic had sent on their ...

A German torpedo sent the works sinking to the bottom of the English Channel. The incident, part of the folklore featuring the herculean academic efforts of Ambedkar, has now been given new currency ...

In 1917, aboard the ship, SS Salcette, the young academic had sent on their way a draft of his PhD dissertation and a vast collection of books. A German torpedo sent the works sinking to the ...