On This Day: USS Maine explodes, sparks Spanish-American War
On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
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The Cargo Ship That Turned the Tide of World War II
During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ...
More than 170 World War II-era bombs found under U.K. playground
The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...
WWII ghost ship sunk by the Nazis is discovered off coast of Brazil
The remains of a long-lost WWII warship have been identified after more than 80 years when it was attacked and sunk by Nazis in 1944. The ship was carrying 270 men and 100 were killed in battle.
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Warship Sunk by the Nazis During World War II Located Off the Coast of Brazil
A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...
WWII ship sunk by German torpedo located off Brazil's coast
The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...
WW2 warship mystery SOLVED as navy vessel torpedoed by Nazis killing 100 is found after wreck snags on fishermen’s net
A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira ...
Underwater robots are clearing the German coast of dangerous explosives from World War II
Throughout September and October 2024, environmental teams deployed advanced underwater vehicles equipped with cameras, powerful lights, and sensors to hunt for submerged explosives from nearly eight ...
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DIT refuses to recover sunken River Murray ferry because ‘ownership has not been determined’
A DIT spokeswoman said, under state law, the department had no authority to remove the sunken ferry from the water because “ownership has not been determined”. She said the department had no ...