Woodman: went to sea in 1960 as a midshipman with Liverpool-based Alfred Holt & Co, the Blue Funnel Line Captain Richard Woodman, who has died aged 80, was a gifted and adventurous seaman, a prolific ...

THIS is an important book. It is neither a description of the navy at work, nor a general history of naval operations (the war against the submarine is dealt with not at all), but a detailed criticism ...

In June 1775 in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), townspeople refused to provide the British with lumber to build barracks for their troops, resulting in the British bringing in the armed ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...

Constructing a massive merchant fleet was one of the most remarkable American achievements during World War II. Most of those vessels were Liberty ships, 441 feet long, designed to ferry tanks, planes ...