A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is hoping an executive order signed earlier this month will give oxygen to a sprawling ...

Archaeologists in Australia have discovered a 19th century Dutch merchant shipwreck that went down off the country's coast ...

The execution of a man for treachery during the Second World War made headlines globally, yet the name of Merchant Seaman Duncan Alexander Croall Scott-Ford, born in Plymouth, is barely recognised ...

A Royal Canadian Navy base in London, Ont., has built a national memorial paying homage to the sailors and air force ...

“I was very impressed with the lad’s interest. He was very polite,” said ex-merchant seaman Doug Hyde. Just as the VE anniversary has revived the nation’s integrity after a battering from ...

When war started, Chris’s dad, who was a merchant seaman, refused to let his children be evacuated to Wales like the other local kids, because he didn’t want them staying with strangers.

The letter written by Ella Ranson to her husband George, a merchant seaman, during World War Two. It lay behind a fireplace in their home in Inberbervie for more than 70 years and has recently ...

But the big story that I've always been told is that he was shipwrecked at least twice during his career as a merchant seaman and I'd like to find out if that's true." Kemp laughs: "You know I've made ...