Alaska Dispatch News5h
How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
WorkBoat6h
SS United States tow scheduled for Feb. 17
A two-week tow to take the historic liner SS United States from Philadelphia to Florida’s Gulf coast is set to begin Feb. 17, ...
WKBN Youngstown on MSN10h
100-year-old Struthers man recalls battling in WWII
He was honorably discharged a year after the war ended, then moved to Struthers in 1954. He has three children, six ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
The Historic S.S. ‘United States,’ the Fastest Liner to Cross the Atlantic, Is Heading to a Watery Grave
Officials plan to purposefully sink the passenger ship off the coast of Florida, where it will become the world's largest ...
The National Interest16h
PT-109: The WWII Boat of LTJG (and Future POTUS) John F. Kennedy
Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20, 1942, ...