On the 11th of November, 1911, a passenger ship, the S.S. Titnatic set sail for the Isle of Wight.
It would not reach its destination. This is the story of that night.
16:00HRS: Petty officer Spike Huff shouted orders for the Stevedores to undo the hawsers and let go.
The lead Stevedore did let go, choking his workmates and making them retch with the pungent smell.
Tugs rallied alongside...
With the sun finally coming out for the final few days of the Olympics, a new problem has emerged, with pollution set to make breathing dangerous for athletes.
"Ozone levels are so high," said Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who has decided to rem...
Immediately following a lengthy meeting in the Oval Office with the Director of the U.S. Secret Service Mark J. Sullivan, President Obama decided to order a hooker.
Sources say his meeting with Sullivan lasted nearly four hours. It follows a rece...
In an unusual display of solidarity for it's stricken protectors, a small gam of whales have formed a protective circle around the a stricken Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) vessel. The MV Brigitte Bardot was hit by a rogue wave in the Sout...
The man who stood in our doorway was breathing heavily. A swarthy, weathered leathery face with a cudgeled nose peered out from beneath a forward-tilted ancient green billycock hat and from between luxuriant long side-whiskers of the sort formerly termed Piccadilly weepers. The dark visage was screwed up as if it faced an Atlantic storm, rather than our humble sitting-room. A shiny, blue serge dou...
British ships faces being left in the dark when they approach hazardous Irish waters, it is feared.
As a result cost-cutting exercises, the UK Government is reducing payments to the Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL). The annual subsidy has been...
Friends, family and a bloke from Middlesborough, celebrated the return of Booker Prize Winning writer Lady Godiva.
As her peddalo arrived at the key side in Hyde Park, a very tired Lady Godiva said she was glad to be back on dry land.
From a h...
Failing in her attempt to sail around the world, sixteen year old Abby Sunderland was rescued by a ready, willing and able group of young Somali Pirates who had managed to sail several thousand miles out of their own jurisdiction just for the privile...
THOUSAND OAKS, CA - Teen mariner Abby Sunderland, whose attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world was thwarted when her craft's mast broke in heavy seas in the Indian Ocean, has been rescued from her parents and is being held in...
A group of men attempting to recreate the epic 7,000 km (4,350 mile) voyage of Captain William Bligh have had an embarrassing setback, one of their crew has mutinied!
The would be mutineer, 18-year-old Brit Christopher 'Ginger' Wilde, disappeared...
Due to one rather untimely volcanic eruption in Iceland, and with what may now also be an extended grounding for air travel into and out of the UK, those wishing to travel where neither tires nor trains go, has become just a little problematic.
B...
A Dutch court has stopped a 14-year old girl from sailing round the world, because 'sailing round the world is the most boring thing to get in the news, year after year, it's a totally uninteresting thing to do.'
'What next? The first dyslexic pot...
Today, residents of Shit Creek were dismayed to discover that the areas last, and only employer is about to go into 'liquidation'.
The 'Paddle Manufacturers' were forced into closure by a combination of cash flow problems and paradoxically, a hug...
A mass demonstration by Drunken Sailors has been planned after key lyrics were removed from a nursery rhyme by a government-funded books project, after they were deemed "offensive".
The Bookstart charity claims the words "Drunken Sailor", and the...
Interpol has announced that following "unprecedented" international co-operation, a "particularly slimey" pedalophile ring has been broken up.
"We have been closely in the wake of these despicable pedo's" said a buoyant Capt Pugwash of D.R.I.B.B.L...
Ben Ainslie, the British sailor, has put out a request for Beijing-based British expatriates to come down to the Olympic sailing event today, and provide wind for his crucial last race, by farting en masse.
The strange request comes after Saturday...