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HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, serving as a hospital ship during World War I. The ship was originally intended to be a passenger liner named RMS Britannic, but was requisitioned by the British Admiralty before her completion. On Nov...
The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine is a legendary hidden mine associated with Jacob Waltz and sought in Arizona's Superstition Mountains since the 1800s.
SS President Coolidge was a luxury ocean liner originally built for the American President Lines. In the lead-up to World War II, the U.S. War Department converted her into a troopship for the United States Army. On October 26, 1942, while entering the harbor at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (n...
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is a globally significant subterranean monument in southern Poland. Operational since the 13th century, it represents one of the world’s oldest operating mines. Visitors explore extensive chambers adorned with elaborate sculptures and chapels carved directly from massive salt...
SS Laurentic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line and used as an armed merchant cruiser during the First World War. On 25 January 1917, she struck mines near Malin Head off the coast of Ireland and sank, killing 354 people. The ship was carrying a large quantity of gold bull...
The SS Niagara was a trans-Tasman ocean liner operated by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Launched in 1912, the vessel struck a German contact mine laid by the auxiliary cruiser Orion near Whangarei on June 19, 1940, and subsequently sank. At the time of its loss, the ship was carrying...
British hospital ship sunk by a mine in the English Channel in November 1915, killing over 130 people, many of them wounded soldiers being evacuated from the Western Front.
British hospital ship that struck a mine and sank in the English Channel on 28 October 1916 during World War I, resulting in casualties among medical personnel.
