We all know about the Titanic and its fateful journey. But have you heard of “Australia’s Titanic”? In our series today we shall read about the 100-year-old lost ship, a ship before the Titanic, famously known as, “SS Waratan”, the ship that...

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As Michel Serres famously puts it, “Voyaging begins when one burns one’s boats, adventures begin with a Shipwreck” and through the series of discovering the deepest shipwrecks we began with the most famous “Flor de la mar”. Voyaging in the series today we halt at the...

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There’s something horrifyingly fascinating about a mysterious disappearance, and vast oceans offer seemingly endless space to vanish. The true fate of many of the ships will never be known, but speculation suggests that storms, piracy, mutiny, accidental bombing, and...

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Endurance was originally known as Polaris and was built for an Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache and the Norwegian Ship Owner Lars Christensen. The ship was orginally built for arctic polar cruises for tourists to hunt polar bear. Later due to the financial...

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The USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was the first of three U.S. Navy ships of the same name that served in World War II. It was a destroyer escort of the John C. Butler class. During the period May 21, 1944, to June 19, 1944, Samuel B. Roberts conducted a trial sail...

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The SS City of Cairo was a British passenger ship. It was manufactured in 1915 for Ellerman Lines Ltd of London by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd, Hull. It was 450 feet (140 m) long, had two decks, two masts, and weighed 8,034 tonnes....

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