Climb aboard Olympia, the oldest steel warship still afloat in the world
The USS Olympia is best known for winning the Battle of Manila Bay and for transporting a service member's remains to the ...
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Sailor's diaries inspire great-granddaughter's art
They detail how he survived storms, shortage of water, war and disease, plus single-handedly saved the ship's crew from certain ... other John Henry from the 1890s who I never met just suddenly ...
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How Jamsetji Tata Challenged British Monopoly Establishment And Lost The Battle, But Not The War
shipping line during the 1880s and 1890s. This effort was detailed in the ... he chartered the English ship 'Annie Barrow' at a fixed rate, making it the first vessel of the Tata Line.
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February 16 1898: Battleship U.S.S. Maine Explodes
In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy!" William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal offered a $ ...
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9 shipwrecks from World War I discovered off Morocco's southern coast
Nine ships sunk by German torpedoes during World War I have been found off the coast of Morocco, experts announced Monday, marking the latest in a string of shipwrecks from the war to be found in ...