The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.
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Warrior, famously called "the horse the Germans couldn't kill," became a symbol of courage and loyalty during World War I.
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
On 10 March 1928, Edwin Albert Ernest Brown married Mildred Celia Andrews, from then known as Mildred Celia Brown (1879-1968). Edwin Albert Ernest Brown died on 19 December 1967 at Sydney, New South ...
The M1 Carbine is one of the most recognizable military firearms in the world. Here's an overview of how it works, and how ...
This month, our readers submitted a 19th-century porcelain head doll, a Fred Stark Machine Age sterling silver flatware set, and a set of Art Nouveau “Lily” pattern sterling demitasse spoons.
Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...
With every rifle earmarked for a soldier, there was a likelihood this soldier would be placed on a battlefield and told to ...
Men joined up and fought in World War I, also known as the Great War, for all kinds of reasons; some fought for the Empire, ...
James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after ...
The XB-1 is a demonstrator for the future Boom Overture, which aims to be the first supersonic passenger aircraft made in the ...
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