In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster was the result of a series ...

The S.S. Eastland had been known as the “Greyhound of the Great Lakes.” The vessel, however, was built to serve as a freighter — not an excursion vessel. Its capsizing killed 844 people, making ...