A number of Royal Navy sailors have fallen ill aboard the HMS Portland and been taken to hospital after drinking contaminated water. The warship returned to the Portsmouth naval base today after a ...
A fire on board the Royal Navy's ill-fated HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier resulted in 10 sailors requiring medical treatment, it has been claimed. The blaze tore through mess decks and crew ...
THE grandmother of a Royal Navy sailor who was seriously injured in a helicopter accident has spoken of her New Year joy at his recovery. Stuart Cormack, who was brought up in Coal Clough Lane ...
Avery had a knack for reading places and people like others read books. As an ex-Royal Navy sailor who became the skipper of ...
When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...
When E.C. Segar began his career as a cartoonist, he took inspiration from those around him. His most popular character, ...
In 1800 a Londoner had the distinction of living in the most populous city in Europe, as one of 900,000 residents. London and Paris, with 600,000 residents, were the only European cities with more ...
His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point. The "old African blasphemer." This was how John Newton (1725-1807) often referred to himself in later life. Such a self-characterization ...
There were 105 sailors onboard the ill-fated HTMS Sukhothai when it went down late Sunday roughly 37km off the country’s south-eastern coast. A total of 81 sailors have been accounted for and 24 ...
In the 1940s, Malcolm Lowry wrote a story about a childhood incident which throws light on his relationship with his father and his emergence as a young rebel. The schoolboy narrator sometimes ...
The great explorer’s ill-starred last mission and violent death in Hawaii are recreated in swashbuckling detail ...