A number of Royal Navy sailors have fallen ill aboard the HMS Portland and been taken to hospital after drinking contaminated water. The warship returned to the Portsmouth naval base today after a ...
A fire on board the Royal Navy's ill-fated HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier resulted in 10 sailors requiring medical treatment, it has been claimed. The blaze tore through mess decks and crew ...
COMMANDERS of the Royal Navy’s supply ships have voted to strike for the first time — threatening to leave thousands of sailors and Marines stranded. The walkout by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...
A group of Royal Navy sailors have been arrested on suspicion of stealing iPads, video games and laptops to order before selling them. The group, which includes a chef and a communications officer ...
THE grandmother of a Royal Navy sailor who was seriously injured in a helicopter accident has spoken of her New Year joy at his recovery. Stuart Cormack, who was brought up in Coal Clough Lane ...
Henry Avery stealthily steered past Hog Island. In the English-controlled waters of the Bahamas, his crew was under strict ...
When E.C. Segar began his career as a cartoonist, he took inspiration from those around him. His most popular character, ...
In 1800 a Londoner had the distinction of living in the most populous city in Europe, as one of 900,000 residents. London and Paris, with 600,000 residents, were the only European cities with more ...
His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point. The "old African blasphemer." This was how John Newton (1725-1807) often referred to himself in later life. Such a self-characterization ...
There were 105 sailors onboard the ill-fated HTMS Sukhothai when it went down late Sunday roughly 37km off the country’s south-eastern coast. A total of 81 sailors have been accounted for and 24 ...
In the 1940s, Malcolm Lowry wrote a story about a childhood incident which throws light on his relationship with his father and his emergence as a young rebel. The schoolboy narrator sometimes ...