In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of a two-part series about the heroic efforts to rescue the trapped crew of the USS Squalus as millions ...

Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks. They placed her on the deck of the rescue ship in a row of corpses. Another Lusitania survivor, ...

On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. It was the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic from the ...

In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and marines from the massive British warship HMS Somerset. It was probably the smallest military unit to take one ...

The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England's history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635, and the Rev. Richard Mather and Anthony Thacher had the misfortune of being on board ships that day. Mather, father to Increase Mather ...

Just before Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied powers, 67 men were killed in the Battle of Point Judith off the coast of Rhode Island. Casualties included 55 German submariners and 12 American merchant mariners. The Nazi  submarine, U-853,  was harassing ...

When the captain of the French ship Magnifique sailed in to Boston Harbor in the summer of 1782, he would have been received as a great friend. The British had, just months before, surrendered at Yorktown to the Americans and ...

On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea trial. Minutes into the maneuver, she began flooding uncontrollably. The Squalus sank to the ocean floor nine miles ...