The English naval authorities, being informed of the circumstances, sent a steam sloop-of-war to the assistance of the San Jacinto. When the news reached Key West the gunboat Honduras was ...

The Admiralty refused to divulge either the place of the collision or the name of the other ship, but it could not conceal the fact that this was Britain’s fourth largest naval disaster of the ...

A World War One relic linked to one of the worst maritime disasters in English waters is to be given to South Africa by Theresa May. The SS Mendi sank off the Isle of Wight in 1917 killing more ...