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Despite warnings from the German embassy in the American press not to start the crossing with the Lusitania, the ship was brought under steam on 1 May 1915. On board were 1,257 passengers and 702 crew members.
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Graeme Spence, maritime surveyor to the Admiralty, said in 1812: “… the art of Man, aided by all the Dykes, Sea Walls or Break-Waters that could possibly be built could not have contained a better Roadstead than the peculiar situation and extent o
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I grabbed my travel mug of tea and headed out the door as the 7:00 a.m.
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Using a 3D multibeam scanner, researchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland have discovered a century-old British submarine which sank off the northern coast of Denmark in 1918.
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When World War I ended, it was agreed as part of the Armistice agreement that Germany had to surrender most of its fleet. Between November 1918 and January 1919, 74 ships from the German High Seas Fleet arrived in Scapa Flow to be interred.
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In the early years, she served as a torpedo training ship. Because of her three engines, she could reach a top speed of 20 knots. During the outbreak of the First World War, she served as the flagship of Rear Admiral Ehler Behring.
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In July 1918, the 15,000-ton armored cruiser San Diego sank off Long Island, New York, after being hit by an explosion.
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Dateline: Saturday, 26 May 2018
Destination: SS Kyarra
Chart co-ordinates: 50°34,90N; 01°56.59W
The Battle of Amiens or the Third Battle of Picardy had just commenced (8 August 1918). This Allied attack would later became known as the ‘Hundred Days Offensive’ and this action ultimately led to the end of the First World War.
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More skirmish than battlefleet action, the German High Seas Fleet, having unintentionally encountered the entire British Grand Fleet, slipped into the mists of the North Sea and escaped.
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The UB II-type submarine was found 25-30 meters (82-98 feet) below the surface on the floor of the North Sea.
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Using a suite of geophysical equipment, ROV and diver survey to collect data that will accurately record the wrecks as they sit on the seafloor today, Orkney Research Center for Archaeology has conducted a survey to map 10 naval shipwrecks at the
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Many warships sunk in World War I and World War II have been vandalised for their bronze propellers, the copper in their boilers and even for their scantlings and hull plating.
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The Danish diving expedition firm JD-Contractor, led by the Sea War Museum Jutland founder Gert Normann Andersen, located the wreck of the British cruiser HMS Warrior – just weeks after they located the wreckage of a German submarine.
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The newly protected wrecks are HMT Arfon,
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