For the last couple of Saturdays, Carrickfergus’s First World War Q-Ship called Result dominated this page. Today it’s her equally heroic sister’s turn - the Carrickfergus-built Q-Ship called Mary B ...

Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...

Swarms of weaponized unmanned surface vessels have proven formidable weapons in the Black and Red Seas. Can the US military ...

On May 3, 1945, during its second war patrol, Lagarto was lost with all 80 crew members aboard. This year marks the 80th ...

A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

The helicopter is the most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now, but the aircraft tied to the film’s famous bit of dialogue is the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. Advertisement cookies are ...

Carrickfergus maritime history enthusiast Christopher Kenny hopes to bring the historic ship Result back to the town where ...

Lt. George Fox, Lt. Alexander Goode, Lt. Clark Poling, and Lt. John Washington—gave their lives aboard the USAT Dorchester.

The food aboard a German U-boat could get really monotonous, especially after the first ten days or so, when all of the ...

During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...

A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...