The sinking of the Athenia: in World War II German U-boats wreaked havoc in the Atlantic. Innocent travelers aboard the S.S. Athenia (depicted here in a vintage postcard painting) were among the first victims. A companion story on p. 37 reveals that U-boats abetted espionage, even on ...
Well, they may have. It is possible that many earlier sites are now underwater due to the sinking of the continental shelf (continental part closest to the ocean) during the Holocene epoch (11,700 years ago to present). A half-submerged site recently found in Salinas, a beach town, rein...
The Sinking of the Laconia: With Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann. Dramatisation of the true story of the sinking of the liner Laconia by a German U-boat in 1942 through the eyes of six survivors.
【题目】The Titanic was a very large British passenger ship It hit an iceberg in theAtlantic Ocean on its first journey in 1912 and sank.T here were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers and over 1,500 passengers died.T he sinking of the Titanic is well knownto most people.T here...
【题目】Sinking of the T itanicT he great ship, the T itanic, sailed for New York from Southampton on April 10th, 1912. She was _361316 passengers and a crew (船员) of 891. At thattime, however, she was not only the largest ship thathad ever been built, but was considered to be...
Adrift far off the coast of West Africa, there was little possibility of rescue by friendly ships for those in her life... (展开全部) 我来说两句 短评 ··· 热门 / 最新 / 好友 还没人写过短评呢 我要写书评 The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War的书评 ··· ( 全部0 ...
This encounter seemed so minor that nobody on board would have been disturbed by it, had it not been for the shouts of crewmen in the hold, who climbed on deck yelling: “We're sinking! We're sinking! ” At first the passengers were quite frightened, but Captain Anderson hastened to ...
Is it possible that the sinking of the Titanic was caused by a ghost? A lot of the story below is true… but did it really happen quite like this? Our story begins not in the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic, but rather thousands of miles away in Egypt. It is here, perhaps,...
Is it possible that the sinking of the Titanic was caused by a ghost? A plot of the story below is true ... but did it really happen quite like this? Our story begins not in the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic, but rather thousands of miles away in Egypt. It is here, perh...
International tragedy:Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News on April 16, 1912, outside the White Star Line offices in London. Lives lost from both sides of the Atlantic:The April 16,1912, front page of The New York Times announces the sinking of the Titanic. ...