Full-fledged panic is erupting in East Prussia in January 1945. Tales of Russian revenge for the Nazi invasion of the “Motherland” spread like wildfire all the way to the Wilhelm Gustloff’s port in Gotenhafen’s Oxhöft Pier. Hundreds of thousands of German refugees continue to stream in to the Danzig , hoping for safe passage to the West. Alarm widens even [...]
A shipwreck found off the north coast of New South Wales has been identified as the MV Limerick, which was sunk by Japanese submarines in World War II. The New Zealand-owned Limerick was part of a coastal convoy from Sydney to Brisbane when it was struck by a torpedo on Anzac Day in 1943, killing two crewmen. Local fishermen identified [...]
As the Mayor of London pushes forward with plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary, The Telegraph discovers an explosive obstacle: the site is also the resting place of a World War II ship carrying hundreds of tons of unexploded bombs. The SS Richard Montgomery was an American cargo ship during the Second World War. It was wrecked off [...]
A project to raise the profile of forgotten World War I shipwrecks is in line for an award of £44,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The Hampshire & Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology aims to discover and explore the wreck remains hidden off the county’s shores. Approximately 250 wrecks dating to the conflict lie off the southern coast. Julie [...]
THE owner of the Lusitania wreck off the south coast has described a €1.5m dive and film documentary on the World War I liner as a dream come true. US businessman Greg Bemis arrives in Cork today to attend an event to mark the worldwide launch of the National Geographic film ‘Dark Secrets of the Lusitania’. The ship — the [...]
The loss of HMS Hood, with 1,400 crew was the Royal Navy’s darkest hour. Now Microsoft’s Paul Allen has sent his £125m yacht to salvage its proudest symbol – the ship’s bell that has lain on the sea bed for 70 years. With its two helipads, basketball court, nightclub and recording studio — not to mention its gilded history as [...]
Every year on Aug. 9, Daniel H. Galvin walks out on his front porch in Hanover and quietly reads off the names of the 379 shipmates he lost when the USS Quincy was sunk off Savo Island in the Pacific in 1942. For more than two decades, it was a private, personal memorial that the 91-year-old veteran kept from even [...]
A record 48-ton haul of silver bullion has been recovered from a World War II shipwreck off the coast of Ireland. The treasure, worth 1.4 million troy ounces of silver, was found on the wreckage three miles beneath the Atlantic. The operation to retrieve the 1,203 bars from the SS Gairsoppa was the heaviest and deepest underwater mission to remove [...]
Divers exploring a ‘UFO-shaped’ object in the Baltic sea say that the strange, curved object might be a Nazi device lost beneath the waves since the end of the Second World War. Sonar scans have shown that the device, raised 10ft above the seabed and measuring 200ft by 25ft, could be the base of an anti-submarine weapon. The weapon was [...]
Sailors on board one of the Royal Navy’s newest warships have made a sea pilgrimage to the spot where their namesake ship sank during World War II. The crew of Portsmouth-based HMS Diamond stood in silence at dawn to mark the sinking of the old HMS Diamond 60 miles (97km) north of Crete. The previous ship was attacked by German [...]
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