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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no ...

Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Does the peace that ended the war haunt us today?

I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers … Swazis, Pondos, Basotho … so let us die like brothers ... hippopotami attack boats, rhinoceroses charge troops on the march, and bees put whole battalions ...

Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson developed dazzle camouflage to protect ships from German U-boats in WW1 WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

Wagers, contests, and collaborations between the City of Brotherly Love and the City of Fountains are blowing up the internet ...

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...