In the late 1940s, as the Soviet Navy rapidly expanded and submarine threats grew more sophisticated, the Royal Air Force urgently needed an aircraft capable of long-range maritime patrol. The answer ...

NEARLY 70,000 people poured through the gates of a popular York attraction in 2025 as it celebrated a bumper year.

The de Havilland Mosquito was a fast British multi-role combat aircraft that flew in 1940. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin ...

Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia ...

The Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust have been working to stabilise the building Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest ...

The wreck of the final ship belonging to legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton has been located 1,280 feet down in the Labrador Sea. Shackleton acquired Quest, a Norwegian-built ...

For eight long months, a small robotic explorer floated through the icy darkness beneath Antarctica’s colossal glaciers. When it finally surfaced, the data it brought back painted a troubling picture ...

The wreck of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been discovered nearly 10,000 feet underwater, at the bottom of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, where it sank in ...