Empire State Building B-24 Crash – 1945
If a pilot heading into the lofty urban jungle of New York City on a foggy morning rejects the chance…
MV Wilhelm Gustloff Disaster – 1945
‘Strength through joy’ was the slogan of the state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. The Kraft durch Freude (KdF) was…
Junyo Maru Tragedy – 1944
In World War II the Japanese treated captives with extreme cruelty, and never was this more evident than when prisoners…
Lancastha Sinking – 1940
The evacuation of 340,000 beleaguered British and French troops from Dunkirk by early June 1940 was a minor miracle for…
Loss of USS Akron – 1933
Great Britain’s airship programme crashed and burned with the ill-fated R101, but others would be slow to learn the lesson.…
R101 Airship Crash – 1930
During the early 20th century the first flying machines - hot air balloons used from the 1780s - were developed…
Iolaire Sinking – 1919
It was the ultimate stroke of bad luck, or bad seamanship. Sailors who survived the dangers of life on the…
SS Mont-Blanc Explosion – 1917
As World War I raged all sorts of unglamorous participants played a part in sustaining global conflict. One such was…
Sinking of the Titanic – 1912
It must be the most famous shipwreck of all time, with the world still fascinated by a century-old event that…
General Slocum Ferry Disaster – 1904
Among the many immigrant populations who lived in the cramped and often squalid conditions of New York’s Lower East Side…