When her husband fell deathly ill with no suitable second-in-command, Mary Ann Patten captained his ship to safety.
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Today in History for Jan. 13: In 1691, Englishman George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, died. In 1695, satirist Jonathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels," was ordained an ...
When Hurricane Melissa took aim at Jamaica, she knew her family was going to need all the help they could get. She packed up ...
A tropical cyclone forced Noordam to skip a port visit in Queensland and remain at sea in calmer waters instead.
Emergency services were called to the Mawgan area of Helston in Cornwall at around 7.35pm on Thursday after a tree fell onto ...
On the night of November 27, 1888, the SS Allentown was battered by high seas in a vicious storm off the coast of New England ...
The South West is hit worst by outages, while National Rail warns passengers in England, Wales and Scotland to expect ...
Britons were warned to expect a further foot of snow this weekend after tens of thousands of homes were left without power ...
More snow, ice and freezing fog will hit the UK after thousands of people were left with no power after Storm Goretti.
Storm Goretti: 24 containers fall from ships off the Isle of Wight overnight after being battered by 70mph gusts 24 shipping containers have into the sea off the Isle of Wight last night as Storm ...
Video footage uploaded to YouTube appears to show Atlas Ocean Voyages’ World Voyager ship rotating before its bow hits Viking ...
The Met Office said on Friday morning that Storm Goretti ‘continues to cause problems’ as a mixture of rain, sleet and snow ...