In the early days of the First World War, a 15-year-old boy named W.H. “Kit” Wyheham-Musgrove somehow managed to enlist in the British Navy. He was assigned to a British cruiser, the HMS Aboukir. In ...

TODAY marks the anniversary of the tragic sinking of the HMS Hogue after it was torpedoed by a German submarine more than 100 years ago. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can ...

It's the centenary of one of World War One's most horrific naval disasters - a little-known U-boat attack in which three ships were sunk with the loss of almost 1,500 lives. Thirty-one of the sailors ...

A hospital ship sunk off the coast of Shepway during the First World War has finally been recognised as an official war grave. The sinking of HMHS Anglia and the Chatham-based cruisers HMS Aboukir, ...

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The U-9 boat came to fame in 1914 when it sunk three British cruisers - HMS Hogue, HMS Cressy and HMS Abukir - in one afternoon. The boat survived the war and was dismantled at Morecambe, Lancashire.

HMS Aboukir was sunk early in WWI by a German submarine Naval veterans' associations say that salvage work on three British warships is desecrating war graves. HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy ...

THE bravery of a teenage sailor from the North-East is to be immortalised in a Dutch documentary. DAVID ROBERTS learns about a 15-year-old boy's heroism in one of the early naval battles of the First ...

From the start of the Great War German U-Boats caused a serious problem for the Allies, destroying about half of all the food and supplies transported by British ships. Within the first ten weeks of ...