TODAY marks the anniversary of the tragic sinking of the HMS Hogue after it was torpedoed by a German submarine more than 100 years ago. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can ...

It's the centenary of one of World War One's most horrific naval disasters - a little-known U-boat attack in which three ships were sunk with the loss of almost 1,500 lives. Thirty-one of the sailors ...

Just weeks into the First World War, three Royal Navy ships were sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of almost 1,500 men - 31 of them from Ulster. Marie Louise McConville reports on the 100th ...

On this Remembrance Day weekend, Bermuda National Museum director Dr. Edward Harris urged locals to spare a thought for William Edmund Smith — the first Bermudian casualty of World War One [1914-1918] ...

In the early days of the First World War, a 15-year-old boy named W.H. “Kit” Wyheham-Musgrove somehow managed to enlist in the British Navy. He was assigned to a British cruiser, the HMS Aboukir. In ...

A hospital ship sunk off the coast of Shepway during the First World War has finally been recognised as an official war grave. The sinking of HMHS Anglia and the Chatham-based cruisers HMS Aboukir, ...

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THE bravery of a teenage sailor from the North-East is to be immortalised in a Dutch documentary. DAVID ROBERTS learns about a 15-year-old boy's heroism in one of the early naval battles of the First ...

The loss of three ships torpedoed in the early weeks of World War One remains the biggest maritime disaster in British naval history. More than 1,450 sailors died when the warships, HMS Aboukir, HMS ...

From the start of the Great War German U-Boats caused a serious problem for the Allies, destroying about half of all the food and supplies transported by British ships. Within the first ten weeks of ...