Fantastic News! Wheatcroft Collection’s S130 – The Last Survivor Has New Home
PRESS RELEASE – THE WHEATCROFT COLLECTION ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE ACQUIRED THE HISTORIC RICHMOND DRY DOCK, WHICH WILL BECOME THE PERMANENT HOME…
19th Century Former Marine Hospital in Galena, Illinois Up for Sale
Galena’s Marine Hospital is up for sale. This fascinating and unusual structure has a long history and prestigious associations. Located off road within Galena city…
Ekranoplans: The Unreal Russian Jet Monster Of The Caspian Sea
Ekranoplans: Unreal Russian Jet Punk-like Wing-in-Ground Effect Flying Boats, with 8/10 Jet-engines, strange-looking relics of USSR’s weird Cold War military designs of the 1960s and…
Whisky from Famed Shipwreck for Sale at Auction
On February 3, 1941, the SS Politician left port in Liverpool, England, on its way to Jamaica and New Orleans with 260,000 bottles of whisky…
USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Sets Sail for her Inaugural Deployment
On Monday 27th July 2020, the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams set sail from Naval Station Norfolk to Africa on her inaugural deployment. The USS Hershel…
France to Rename Streets After African WW2 Heroes
Operation Dragoon was launched in Provence, Southern France just two months after Operation Overlord in Normandy, in August 1944. The controversial invasion, argued against by…
Korean War Vet Graduates High School at age 87
In 1952 Ed Saunders dropped out of school to join the United States Air force and train as a pilot. Now, sixty-eight years later, he…
US Senate Passes Agent Orange bill to Extend VA Benefits
The US Senate has approved by 94 votes to 6 to amend the defense policy bill to include hypothyroidism, Parkinsonism, and bladder cancer to the…
SS Richard Montgomery Contains Enough Munitions to Create a Tsunami
In August 1944, the US Navy ship SS Richard Montgomery was delivering over 6,000 metric tons of explosive ordnance for use in the Allied press…
Fake SEAL Pleads Guilty to Stolen Valor
Stolen Valor: Richard Meleski, 58, of Chalfont, Pennsylvania, has plead guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs by pretending to be a Navy SEAL,…
Part Time Viking Stabs Girlfriend While Practising Battle Moves!
Viking fun? Benover, near Yalding is a picturesque low-lying village South West of the town of Maidstone in Kent, South East England. Once a proud…
British Beefeaters Facing Layoffs for First Time in Half Century
The iconic British Beefeaters, the guards at the Tower of London are facing layoffs for the first time in 50 years. John Barnes is the…