Shortly after the First World War had ended, 52 German warships were sunk in one day off the Orkney Islands as a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a German commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war.
The story of USS Corsica, the nickname for a number of airfields on the French island of Corsica in the latter part of the Second World War. They served the Allies as an unsinkable aircraft carrier off the French south coast and supported the Allied landings and tactical operations in the south of France
The tragic, yet largely forgotten story of the Empress of Ireland, a Scottish-built ocean liner that sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog. The disaster killed over 1,000 passengers in 1914
The epic journey through the remains of six of the world's most spectacular underwater disasters continues by considering the numerous Second World War shipwrecks in the Philippine Sea
Ships lost to the Philippine Sea in times of conflict
Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944. Though successful, it highlighted the intense disagreements the Allies had concerning strategy. It has been termed by some as `the other D-Day"
