And several survivors in lifeboats saw a searchlight in the distance that they thought belonged to a rescue ship. However, no rescue ship came until the next day. It's possible that the light belonged to a German submarine but it has never been proven. Three years later, a German U-boat...
A search and rescue mission was underway Monday for a submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. Lt. Jordan Hart of the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston first confirmed to CBS News that personnel were “currently undergoing a search...
A torpedo from the German submarine U-20 hit the Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Lusitania at 2:10 p.m. May 7 off the coast of Ireland, and the huge vessel sinks in 18 minutes killing 1,201 who include 128 U.S. citizens, starting a wave of protest that eventually draws the United S...
she was shaken by an explosion after hitting a mine which was placed in the Kea Channel the previous month by an Imperial German Navy submarine. She sank 55 minutes later near the island of Kea.
On 1st September 1915 the Olympic was requisitioned by the British Government for war service as a troopship. Later she received a coat of dazzle paint designed to confuse enemy observers. Perhaps her most famous exploit of the war years was when she struck and sank a German submarine, U103...
Bismarck's crew died with the ship or in the frigid North Atlantic afterwards when the Royal Navy caught up with her again (Worries about a U-Boat in the area sadly forced the curtailment of rescue operations soon after beginning, leaving most survivors of her sinking to die in the water)...
O'Kane, Caitlin.See Maps of Where the Titanic Sank and How Deep the Wreckage Is amid Search for Missing Sub - CBS News. 20 June 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/map-where-did-the-titanic-sink-wreckage-location-depth-missing-submarine/. ...
Did you know you can ride a submarine in the Great Lakes?Read full article: Did you know you can ride a submarine in the Great Lakes? If you’ve turned on the news in the last few days, you probably already know about the Titan submersible, a submarine of sorts that has been missing...
The watch was given by the widows of three prominent men who died on Titanic-Madeline Astor, Marian Thayer and Eleanor Widener-to Rostron in recognition of his service to rescue Titanic survivors. Rostron received the watch while attending at a luncheon given in his honor by Mrs. Astor at ...
On November 23, 1942, a ship named the SS Tilawa, carrying nearly 1,000 people and thousands of tonnes of cargo, was sunk by a Japanese Navy submarine in the Indian Ocean. One of only two known survivors of the tragedy still alive today is Arvind Bhai Jani, who was just three years...