Divers discover wreck of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, 106 years after it sank in WWI
Discovery of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa’s Wreckage The wreck of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Tampa, which sank during the most significant American naval loss in World War I, has been found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean over a century later. This discovery comes from a British diving team known as Gasperados, […]
Father and daughter discover messages in a bottle that are over 100 years old from WWI soldiers.
Message in a Bottle from WWI Discovered in Australia A father and daughter from Western Australia recently stumbled upon a century-old message in a bottle, originally sent by a soldier during World War I, on October 9. Peter Brown and his daughter, Felicity, found a Schweppes bottle with letters floating near Wharton Beach, close to […]
Researchers find WWI submarine wreck USS F-1 lying 1,300 feet beneath the surface.
USS F-1 Submarine Remembrance In December 1917, a group of 19 sailors from US submarines tragically lost their lives during a training operation. As the anniversary approached, scientists captured a previously unseen photograph of the submarine’s resting place off the California coast. The USS F-1 sank after colliding with another submarine on December 17, 1917, […]
Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France’s WWI battlefields
Soldiers rush through trenches amid hazy yellow smoke, machine guns ring out in the fields, invisible drones fly overhead, and voices shout “Watch out!” in Ukrainian. The site could be 1,860 miles away in Ukraine's Donbass region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans were buried there, where French and German troops once beat […]
Century-old WWI memorial left overgrown, ignored in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
This tiny green space preserve in Brooklyn, a memorial to locals killed in World War I, is tucked away in a 3,000-square-foot park, mysteriously padlocked and hidden by an overgrown grove most days. Since the death of city-owned Memorial Gore Park's biggest supporter, the Williamsburg park has been left abandoned and closed indefinitely, except for […]
‘Virtually intact’ wreck off Scotland believed to be Royal Navy warship torpedoed in WWI | Scotland
A team of British divers has welcomed the discovery of the “largely intact” wreck of what is believed to be a Royal Navy warship sunk during World War I off the coast of Scotland. Earlier this week, researchers discovered a ship in the North Sea that they believe to be the HMS Hawk, which was […]
Divers Find Shipwreck Likely To Be WWI Vessel Lost With Over 500 Sailors: REPORT
Divers have discovered a shipwreck believed to be a World War I ship that sank with more than 500 sailors on board, the BBC reported on Friday. An underwater expedition off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, has discovered a vessel believed to be HMS Hawk, a Royal Navy warship sunk during World War I. The […]