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At 13:20 Greenwich Mean Time, on the 7th of May 1945, Captain Schwieger ordered a G-type torpedo to be loaded into a forward tube.
As Lusitania reached the southern part of the Irish Cannel, the British admiralty issued a warning that submarine activity in the area had successfull...
This 1918 animation, by the famous cartoonist Winsor McCay (1867-1934), depicts the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, a ship of the Cunard Line.
Lusitania had set speed records during her transatlantic crossings.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was Vice President during the Kennedy Administration.
Navy guns bombard the beaches of Leyte, and carrier-based planes bomb the island defenses, as General MacArthur makes good on his promise to the Filip...
Ferdinand Magellan (a Portuguese sea captain sailing for Spain) had an important goal when he left the town of Seville on the 10th of August, 1519: Fi...
Sailing in caravels, which are very uncomfortable, Magellan and his men encounter bad weather. Then they see "St. Elmo's Fire." Maybe something good...
Weeping for joy, Magellan realizes he's found a fabled passage when his ships sailed into the Pacific (from the Atlantic).
Magellan and his entire crew are devastated by hunger, thirst and foreboding. Their food and water is contaminated. The men are reduced to eating ra...
After Magellan dies, his remnant crew returns to Spain, completing the world's first circumnavigation. Extremely ill, the men do not realize their car...
In June of 1924, George Mallory and Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine (two British mountaineers) hoped to reach the top of Mt.
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