Some passengers jumped overboard and clung onto rafts, while others were offered refuge when the collapsible lifeboats floated out of the sinking ship. After only 18 minutes, the Lusitania had ...

As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

More notoriety than fame accrued to George Viereck during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitania by a U-boat, Viereck wrote: “The facts in the case absolutely justify the action of the ...

Kraken defenseman and avid history buff Jamie Oleksiak has taken quite well to new pairing partner Brandon Montour and is off to one of the better starts of his career ...

This year’s featured title is “Dead Wake” by Erik Larson, a riveting nonfiction examination of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was a passenger ship torpedoed by a German U ...

a passion sparked by a grade-school assignment about the British passenger liner Lusitania that broke transatlantic speed records before her 1915 sinking by a German U-boat. One book led to another: ...

Tom McCormack from Robertstown, bravely dived 40ft off the deck of the Lusitania after the ... Its understood the ship sank within a quarter of an hour, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people on board. The ...

A fishing boat has capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island, leaving at least two people dead and 12 ...

Four migrants died in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday, the Greek coastguard said, the latest migrant boat sinking in recent weeks. The coastguard said in a statement the bodies of three men and a ...

Three people were rescued from the Long Island Sound on Monday when the boat they were on started sinking about two miles off the coast of Milford, leaving one person in critical condition.

Milford Marine units and the U.S. Coast Guard responded and learned that an oyster boat heard the distress call and went to the area where the boat was sinking. When they arrived, they found the ...